A Quote by R. D. Laing

The square root of nothing.

R. D. Laing

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R. D. Laing
Scottish - Psychologist
October 7, 1927 - August 23, 1989

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

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

When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed: 'Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!'

Kazimir Malevich

The square root of I is I.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

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

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 or anything here

Tom Lehrer

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

Louis Kahn

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

Eugene Mirman

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

In a city where millions of people are drawn to Times Square, we need to push against the immorality that has taken root there once again so families can enjoy New York.

Ruben Diaz Sr.

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