Quotes About Rational Numbers

#1. Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.

Kristy Cambron

#2. Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.

Julius Evola

#3. To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Stephen Hawking

#4. That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

Rudolf Steiner

#5. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

James Elkins

#7. We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic' or 'delusional' . . . Clearly there is sanity in numbers.

Richard Dawkins

#8. And what do you think true love is? her father had asked her. 'Loving even when all hope is gone,' she had answered.

Kate Forsyth

#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. Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Thomas A. Edison

#11. I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#12. The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.

Peter Hook

#13. Refuse to see anything without seeing God in it. via Donald S. Whitney Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. David Kay, listening in, had no idea what this was about, but he watched in horror as Mrs. Russet's gaze turned from weathered shingles to flint.

Suzanne Stroh

#15. There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future

Daniel Patrick Moynihan