Infinite Continued Fraction

Famous quotes containing the words infinite, continued and/or fraction:

“What means the fact—which is so common, so universal—that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)