Arithmetic Quote by Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

— Albert Einstein

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already…

— Saharon Shelah

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in…

— Kevin Guilfoile

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed…

— Arthur Koestler

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which…

— Christopher Zeeman

God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man

— Leopold Kronecker

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or…

— Plato