Imaginary Number Domain

Famous quotes containing the words imaginary, number and/or domain:

    “All legendary obstacles lay between
    Us, the long imaginary plain,
    The monstrous ruck of mountains”
    —John Montague (b. 1929)

    “In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When it had long since outgrown his purely medical implications and become a world movement which penetrated into every field of science and every domain of the intellect: literature, the history of art, religion and prehistory; mythology, folklore, pedagogy, and what not.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)