Arithmetic Quotes · Page 8

Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We…

— Stanislaw Lem

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

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite…

— Arthur Koestler

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

— John Lubbock

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not…

— Amiri Baraka

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

— Bill Nye

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no…

— Clyde Tombaugh

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

— Nicolas Malebranche

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as…

— Bertrand Russell

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

— Henry Spencer

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been…

— John von Neumann

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration -…

— Marvin Minsky

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what…

— Ayn Rand

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis…

— Gottlob Frege

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

— Paul Scherer

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote