Arithmetic Quotes

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

— Benjamin Graham

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

— Elbert Hubbard

Method is the arithmetic of success.

— Josh Billings

God does arithmetic.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

— Henry Spencer

“Arithmetic is the death of story.”

— Jincy Willett

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

— Sydney Smith

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

— Aristotle

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

— John Ray

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

— Mason Cooley

“If the Chemistry is not right, Arithmetic won't workout.”

— Ganesh V

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— John Lubbock

You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well,…

— Hillary Clinton

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

— Thomas Browne

You must be the arithmetic man; you add trouble, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance.

— Anonymous

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the…

— Gottlob Frege

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

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

— Anonymous

Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that,…

— John Taylor Gatto

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how…

— Thomas Brooks

The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to…

— Tobias Dantzig

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In…

— Kathryn Lasky

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic…

— Alan Greenspan

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone…

— Laurence Sterne

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had…

— Harold Davenport

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian…

— Keith J. Devlin

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only…

— Robert Prechter

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

— Neal A. Maxwell

The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two…

— John Perry

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning…

— Christopher Zeeman

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

— John Arlott