Positive Real Numbers

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

    “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)

    “But as to women, who can penetrate
    The real sufferings of their she condition?
    Man’s very sympathy with their estate
    Has much of selfishness and more suspicion.
    Their love, their virtue, beauty, education,
    But form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
    Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
    My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
    Her classics registered a little flat!
    I rose, and venomously spat.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)