Arithmetical Quotes
22 quotes by 18 authors
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous…
— Henri Poincare
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical…
— Charles Lyell
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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several…
— John von Neumann
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had…
— Plato
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of…
— Thomas Malthus
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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
— Friedrich List
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It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
— Samuil Shatunovsky
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In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to…
— Louis P. Benezet
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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
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The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.
— David Hilbert
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Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical…
— Ada Lovelace
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Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only…
— Rene Descartes
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The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to…
— Blaise Pascal
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[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most…
— Thomas Malthus
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
— Franz Kafka
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
— John von Neumann
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Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be…
— Georgette Heyer
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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting…
— Ian Mcewan
Who Wrote These Arithmetical Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 22 Arithmetical Quotes as follows: