Arithmetic Quotes

144 quotes by 120 authors

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may… — Thomas Brooks
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created… — Bertrand Russell
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a… — Carl Sagan
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic. — Benjamin Graham
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain… — Louis Orr
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on… — Clifton Fadiman
We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You… — Rosie O'Donnell

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