Positive Real Number

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

“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“Ah, but to play man number one,
To drive the dagger in his heart,
To lay his brain upon the board
And pick the acrid colors out,
To nail his thought across the door,
Its wings spread wide to rain and snow,
To strike his living hi and ho....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)