"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."
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29 Quotes by David Berlinski
David Berlinski has 29 quotes on this site.
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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…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories,…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that…
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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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More Arithmetic Quotes
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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
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
— Thomas Brooks
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."
— T. Harv Eker
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As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the…
— Roger Bacon
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more…
— Bertrand Russell
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same…
— Bertrand Meyer
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is…
— Unknown Author
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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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