Arithmetic Quotes

144 quotes by 120 authors

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are… — Terry Pratchett
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic.… — Ted Hughes
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only… — Tom Waits
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any… — Anne Lamott
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but… — John Taylor Gatto
Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I… — William J. Clinton
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a… — Ursula Burns
Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic. — P.J. O'Rourke
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One… — Vannevar Bush
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however,… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. — John McCarthy
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment… — James C. Maxwell
God does arithmetic. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
How much do you love me, a million bushels? Oh, a lot more than that, Oh, a lot more. And to-morrow maybe only half a… — The Forgotten
I fear that I will always be, A lonely number like root three. A three is all thats good and right, Why must my three… — Ritesh
In the Arithmetic of love 1 + 1 = Everything and 2-1 = nothing. — Praise Jonathan
Dear angel of my dreams. My love for u is lyk a feeling of proportional levels on top of kilimanjaro mountain.Are u made of copper… — El Licious IV
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in… — Bertrand Russell
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula. — Dr Louis Orr

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