Irrational Number Quotes

#1. Pythagoras
Did stagger us
And our reason encumber
With irrational number

Steven Cushing

#2. And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge.

Yann Martel

#3. Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#4. Funny how days are like that. Some days start off rubbish and get worse as they go on, others start well and get better.

Chris Higgins

#5. Clearly the ring had an unwholesome power that set to work on its keeper at once. That

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.

Jules Renard

#7. I enjoy working with people. That seems simplistic, but whenever I'm distressed, angry, and want to feel like something can be done about something, it feels better when you surround yourself with people.

Lauren Mayberry

#8. Meditation is taking the truth down into our hearts until it catches fire there and begins to melt and shape our reactions to God, ourselves, and the world.

Timothy Keller

#9. You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Pope Paul VI

#10. In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#11. Color is a plastic means of creating intervals ... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Hans Hofmann

#12. Well then, I'll take a whole heap of that emancipation, Mister Jesse. Yes, sir, a whole heap." -Cyrus

A Glimpse Of Freedom

M.A. Bookout

#13. My passion for human ecology was not a drive for closure - but rather the joy of endless openings and newfound connections. There is no final goal or perfect completion, only the expanding experience of being alive.

Richard J. Borden

#14. There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Mark Twain

#15. Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him?

~ Susan

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love

Leo Tolstoy

#17. I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#18. Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

J.K. Rowling

#19. Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

E. Franklin Frazier

#20. I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

John Stossel