Arithmetic Quotes

144 quotes by 120 authors

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. — John Ray
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic… — Roger Rosenblatt
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. — Conrad Black
I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic. — Erskine Bowles
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material… — G. H. Hardy
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Henri Poincare
Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir… — James Boswell
In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. — Nicholas of Cusa
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general… — Christopher Zeeman
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. — Bertrand Russell
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is… — Bertrand Russell
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic. — Aristotle
There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of… — John Ruskin
Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red. — Paul Scherrer
You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while… — C.S. Lewis
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 the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to… — Susan George

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