Calculating Quote by Emile Zola

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

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

— Anonymous

“You know what happens when you give a kid a calculator instead of teaching him math?" "I think you need my help." I cross…

— Carolyn Crane

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

— Samuel Johnson

“Understand this clearly: you can teach a man to draw a straight line, and to carve it; and to copy and carve any number…

— John Ruskin

Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.

— Norman Vincent Peale

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very…

— Adam Smith

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without…

— Andy Rooney

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the…

— Robert Musil

“I still remember the day I got my first calculator Teacher: All right, children, welcome to fourth grade math. Everyone take a calculator out…

— Simon Rich