Arithmetic Quotes

144 quotes by 120 authors

The more love we give away, the more we have left. The laws of love differ from the laws of arithmetic. Love hoarded dwindles, but… — John Templeton
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to… — Freya Stark
When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten… — Sam Levenson
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science… — Howard Aiken
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of… — Joan Collins
Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that… — Henry Latham Doherty
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I… — William Petty
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion… — Henry David Thoreau
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it! — Hermann Weyl
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. — Elbert Hubbard
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a… — Noel Coward
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a… — Andy Rooney
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised… — Laurence Sterne

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