Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

To add to truth distracts from it,

— Alex Toth

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

— Núria Añó

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

— Arthur Eddington

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news…

— Matt Cutts

New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

— Winston Churchill

I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

— Adolf Hitler

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

— Elias Canetti

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

— Craig Claiborne

Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

— Michael Yates

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

— James Boswell

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

— Ian Fleming