Negative Solution

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or solution:

“The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had? Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)