Real Quadratic Fields

Famous quotes containing the words real and/or fields:

    The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering—that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade!
    Ah fields beloved in vain!
    Where once my careless childhood stray’d,
    Thomas Gray (1716–1771)