Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking…

— Ada Lovelace

“Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums”

— Michael Frayn

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction…

— Charles Dickens

“Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. Unlike yesterday, today’s prosperity can bloom from continuous intelligent production. For the first…

— Sean Platt

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which…

— Thom Gunn

Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with…

— Thomas A. Edison

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

— Ice T

“I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.”

— Jonathan Evison

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster…

— Henry David Thoreau

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

— D.T. Suzuki

“As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being…

— C.S. Lewis

“I've always been good at math. It's straightforward, black-and-white, right and wrong. Equations. Da thought of people as books to be read, but I've…

— Victoria Schwab