Mathematical Facts

Famous quotes containing the words mathematical and/or facts:

    “An accurate charting of the American woman’s progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time—but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.”
    —Susan Faludi (20th century)

    “Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)