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)

    “Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision,
    only when we are the wind together streaming and singing,
    only in the dream we become with our bones for spears,
    we are real at last
    and wake.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “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)