"We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic." — Aristotle

More Arithmetic Quotes

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• It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be… — Benjamin Franklin
• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your… — Thomas Brooks
• There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain… — Wallace D. Wattles
• It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker
• As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the… — Roger Bacon
• Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more… — Bertrand Russell
• A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
• You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same… — Bertrand Meyer
• I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic… — Nicolas Malebranche
• In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is… — Unknown Author
• Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it… — Sofia Kovalevskaya

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