Positive Real Number

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

“The most positive men are the most credulous.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)