Accustomed Quote by Benjamin Franklin

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above…

— Elie Ducommun

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

— Benjamin Franklin

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The…

— Tom Waits

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should…

— Mitch Daniels

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim…

— Bertrand Russell

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting,…

— Joan Collins

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

— Conrad Black

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege