Arithmetic Quotes

144 quotes by 120 authors

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator — John Arlott
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite… — Harold Davenport
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until… — Jacques Hadamard
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate… — Agatha Christie
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for… — John Taylor Gatto
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art.… — John Kricfalusi
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I… — Jonathan Swift
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of… — James Joseph Sylvester
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of… — Bertrand Russell
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are… — Le Corbusier
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment… — James Clerk Maxwell
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike — Nas
Does Rupert like me? I think so, but it doesn't matter. When I go up to the magic room in the sky every three months,… — Roger Ailes
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When… — James Richardson
Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers — Marcus du Sautoy
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many… — Nicolaus Copernicus

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