Doubly Infinite Sequences

Famous quotes containing the words doubly and/or infinite:

    “A man calumniated is doubly injured—first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.”
    —Herodotus (c. 484–425 B.C.)

    “The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)