Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions). — Paul Dilascia Copy Share Image
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic).… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We… — William Landay Copy Share Image
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato Copy Share Image
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You must be the arithmetic man; you add trouble, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
