Arithmetic Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the…

— Stephen King

“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.”

— Teresa Mummert

“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication…

— Mark Twain

“The boy registered them but didn’t answer, already turned inward. He was counting backward from a thousand in multiples of four while working multiplication…

— William Kely McClung

“Fourteen wasn't horrible, but it was more complicated, and sometimes that felt like the same thing.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the…

— Terry Pratchett

“But aside from Willy’s skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was…

— Sam Wellman

“You could trust numbers, except perhaps for pi, but he was working on that in his spare time and it was bound to give…

— Terry Pratchett

“That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned…

— Michael Grant

“There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.”

— Joy Fielding

“Fourteen Points? The Good Lord only gave us Ten, and do we abide by those?”

— Georges Clemenceau

“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It had happened…

— Amanda Ripley