Method is the arithmetic of success.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

— Ronald Fisher

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next…

— Abraham Robinson

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find…

— Helen Keller

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The…

— Tom Waits

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should…

— Mitch Daniels

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

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting,…

— Joan Collins

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

— Conrad Black

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we…

— Jeff Merkley

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman