Rational Root Test

Famous quotes containing the words rational, root and/or test:

    “Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses ... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “She saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Wild roses, at your back porch, break their blood,
    And bud to test surprises of sea air,”
    —Howard Moss (b. 1922)