Square Roots Quotes

16 quotes by 16 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
• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 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
• Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Who Wrote These Square Roots Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Square Roots Quotes as follows:

• 1 Square Roots Quote by George Gamow
• 1 Square Roots Quote by John Perry
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Carson McCullers
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Henry Spencer
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Aprilynne Pike
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Tim O'Brien
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Philip Pullman
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Drake
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Augustus De Morgan
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Tom Lehrer
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Douglas Hofstadter
• 1 Square Roots Quote by Michael Atiyah