Positive Real Number

Famous quotes containing the words positive, real and/or number:

    “The oaks, how subtle and marine!
    Bearded, and all the layered light
    Above them swims; and thus the scene,
    Recessed, awaits the positive night.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)