Square Root Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som' — Drake
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has… — Augustus De Morgan
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God… — Tom Lehrer
Irrationality is the square root of all evil — Douglas Hofstadter
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of… — Michael Atiyah
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped… — George Gamow
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is… — Carson McCullers
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? — Aprilynne Pike
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. — Terry Pratchett
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd… — Tim O'Brien
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that… — Philip Pullman
The square root of I is I. — Vladimir Nabokov
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all… — Philip Pullman
I fear that I will always be, A lonely number like root three. A three is all thats good and right, Why must my three… — Ritesh

Who Wrote These Square Root Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Square Root Quotes as follows: