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The square root of nothing. -- R. D. Laing
The square root of I is I. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som' -- Drake
Irrationality is the square root of all evil -- Douglas Hofstadter
Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love? -- Eugene Mirman
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? -- Aprilynne Pike
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. -- Henry Spencer
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. -- Terry Pratchett
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here -- Tom Lehrer
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful. -- Carson McCullers
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity. -- George Gamow
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude. -- Edward Charles Titchmarsh
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel. -- Marcel Proust
There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time. -- Tom Holt
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors. -- Michael Atiyah
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter. -- Augustus De Morgan
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But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it. -- Philip Pullman
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice. -- Bill Nye
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number. -- Keith Devlin
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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