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)

“It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)