A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods:… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I would point out is that most of the change over the past 5,000 years has been arithmetic, and it now logarithmic.… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory… — Lorenzo Ghiberti Copy Share Image
My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of… — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Norma looked at him, puzzled. "Someone else to do the mathematics?" "Of course!" Holtzman brushed iron-gray hair away from his face and… — B. Herbert, K.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image