Arithmetic Quote by Arthur Koestler

“that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like…

— Arthur Koestler

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

— Charles Dickens

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where…

— Werner Heisenberg

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

— Charles Hermite

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom…

— James R Newman

“If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish)”

— George R.R. Martin

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

— Nicolas Malebranche

“Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!”

— Felix Alba-Juez

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence…

— Margaret Wertheim

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms…

— Ada Lovelace