Positive Real Number

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

    “Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Main Street was never the same. I read Gide and tried to
    translate Proust. Now nothing is real except French wine.
    For absurdity is reality, my loneliness unreal, my mind tired.
    And I shall die an old Parisian.”
    —Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968)

    “The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)