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Arithmetic Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created…
- 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…
- 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.
- While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
- 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…
More Arithmetic Quotes
- The more love we give away, the more we have left. The laws of love differ from the laws of arithmetic. Love… — John Templeton
- It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin
- God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which… — Wallace D. Wattles
- It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche