Irrational Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words irrational and/or numbers:

“How did reason enter the world? As is fitting, in an irrational way, accidentally. We will have to guess at it, like a riddle.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)