Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Clever dicks will notice that the figure changes as the boat gets deeper or lighter because the area of the waterplane changes.… — Bill Cooper Copy Share Image
In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are… — Henry Latham Doherty Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
“There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern… — Georgius Agricola Copy Share Image
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“Our arithmetic textbooks, which contained problems about speeding trains and leaky cisterns, should rightfully have included the following: how many tins of… — C.K. Meena Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image