Arithmetic Quotes

144 quotes by 120 authors

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills… — Linda Darling-Hammond
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. — Grace Hopper
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several… — John von Neumann
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. — Lorenzo Ghiberti
Belief is no substitute for arithmetic. — Henry Spencer
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible… — Plato
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are… — Zoe Weil
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. — Truman Capote
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, too,… — Neal A. Maxwell
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz
Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black peopleâ€™s] secrets. . . .Â They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . .… — Amiri Baraka
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should… — Rudolf Steiner
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher

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