Quater-imaginary Base/radix Point

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or point:

    “One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.”
    —Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

    “There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.”
    —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)