Positive Real Number

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

    “The oaks, how subtle and marine!
    Bearded, and all the layered light
    Above them swims; and thus the scene,
    Recessed, awaits the positive night.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman’s vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.”
    —Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980)