Quotes About Irrational Numbers

#1. What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

Leopold Kronecker

#2. God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

Vern Poythress

#3. The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

Georg Cantor

#4. predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.

Morris Kline

#5. Dead ends are where the real thinking begins.

Marty Rubin

#6. The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Walter Savage Landor

#7. [T]he superstitions to be feared in the present day are much less religious than political; and of all the forms of idolatry I know none more irrational and ignoble than this blind worship of mere numbers. - William Lecky, Democracy and Liberty

Bryan Caplan

#8. 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

#9. I believe in numbers. The ones you can see and the ones you can't. The real and the imaginary, the rational and the irrational, and every point on lines that go on forever. Numbers have never let me down. They don't waffle. They don't lie. They don't pretend to be what they're not. They're timeless.

Amy Harmon

#10. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Morgan Wootten

#11. The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Bruce Lee

#12. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

Denise Moreland