Is the square root
Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love? Eugene Mirman
Square Roots
I met a man
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn’t believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude. Edward Charles Titchmarsh
You see, gentlemen, reason
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 man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this … Read more
The square root of
The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som’ Drake
Irrationality is the square
Irrationality is the square root of all evil. Douglas Hofstadter
The theme is the
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 the square root of wonderful. Carson McCullers
That this subject [of
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and … Read more
Speaking of human computers,
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice. Bill Nye
Imagine a person with
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 no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter. Augustus De Morgan
Square root of a
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? Aprilynne Pike