God is a God of Multiplication

“The multiplication table is more wise and more absolute than the ancient god, for the multiplication table never (do you understand—never) makes mistakes! There…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim…

— Bertrand Russell

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

— Margaret Sanger

My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to…

— Michael Skolnik

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

— Julian Barnes

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This…

— Herbert Spencer

It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when…

— Jacques Ellul

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces…

— Amy Chua

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and…

— Robert Koch

Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.

— John C. Maxwell

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and a half…

— Will Advise

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

— Greg Perry