Surreal Number/to Infinity

Famous quotes containing the words surreal, number and/or infinity:

    “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible ... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space—it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)