"Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular……" — James Boswell
"Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey, let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you; but a book of science is inexhaustible."
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James Boswell
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56 Quotes by James Boswell
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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable…
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said…
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not,…
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are…
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily…
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments,…
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on…
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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to…
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must…
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.…
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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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