Arithmetic Quotes · Page 3

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

— Bill Nye

“Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.”

— David Levithan

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

— Rajneesh

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

— Alain de Botton

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

— Bill Gosper

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

— Adam Smith

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception…

— Bertrand Russell

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers…

— Bertrand Russell

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

— Mitch Daniels

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things…

— John Taylor Gatto

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which…

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Gottlob Frege

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken…

— Jonathan Swift

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation…

— William E. Gladstone

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the…

— Terry Pratchett

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock…

— John Derbyshire

The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The…

— David van Dantzig

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern…

— Georgius Agricola

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy…

— Bertrand Russell

“Our arithmetic textbooks, which contained problems about speeding trains and leaky cisterns, should rightfully have included the following: how many tins of…

— C.K. Meena

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

— Grace Hopper

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the…

— Vannevar Bush

your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).

— Paul Dilascia

“I’d hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that…

— Susan George

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

— Bertrand Russell

You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

— Nas

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

— Alan Watts

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

— John von Neumann

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do…

— Andy Rooney

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

— Benjamin Franklin

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Henri Poincare