Arithmetic Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.

— Anonymous

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

— Plato

“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing but a…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial…

— James A. Garfield

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

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the…

— Howard Aiken

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

— Franz Kafka

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

— William Stanley Jevons

We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted…

— Lynn Steen

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons