The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial,… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of… — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Norma looked at him, puzzled. "Someone else to do the mathematics?" "Of course!" Holtzman brushed iron-gray hair away from his face and… — B. Herbert, K.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Does Rupert like me? I think so, but it doesn't matter. When I go up to the magic room in the sky… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and… — William Petty Copy Share Image
“It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old… — Howard Aiken Copy Share Image
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter… — Louis Orr Copy Share Image
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For,… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The more love we give away, the more we have left. The laws of love differ from the laws of arithmetic. Love… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
