A Quote by Michael Atiyah

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 geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.

Michael Atiyah

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Michael Atiyah
British - Mathematician
Born: April 22, 1929

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

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 Math and took up Divinity.

George Gamow

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

The square root of I is I.

Vladimir Nabokov

The square root of nothing.

R. D. Laing

Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?

Eugene Mirman

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

Douglas Hofstadter

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'

Drake

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

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Tom Holt

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Henry Spencer

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Douglas Coupland

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

E. M. Forster

It's still one of the proudest moments in my career boxing at Madison Square Garden. Some fighters who have won titles and championships have never boxed at Madison Square Garden. For a little kid just off a council estate to do it was a dream come true.

Ricky Hatton

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