"Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not……" — David Berlinski

"Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic."

29 Quotes by David Berlinski

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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now…
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever…
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be…
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories,…
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know…
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that…
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic…

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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be… — Benjamin Franklin
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your… — Thomas Brooks
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain… — Wallace D. Wattles
It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the… — Roger Bacon
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more… — Bertrand Russell
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same… — Bertrand Meyer
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic… — Nicolas Malebranche
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is… — Unknown Author
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it… — Sofia Kovalevskaya

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