Arithmetic Quote by Howard Aiken

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…

— Plato

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity.…

— Leslie Lamport

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

“One of the implicit principles of computer science, as odd as it may sound, is that computation is bad: the underlying directive of any…

— Brian Christian

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato