Irrational Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words irrational and/or numbers:

“The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)