Intelligent Quote by Nicholas Kristof

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2.…

— Garrett Hardin

Being bad at maths shouldn't be something to brag about, and I'm glad people are waking up to this, but there's no reason be…

— Rachel Riley

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

— Angus Deaton

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

— Andy Rooney

We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that…

— Bill McKibben

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

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

— Aimee Bender

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

— Noam Chomsky

We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

— Chris Ofili

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

— Stendhal

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.

— Volodymyr Zelensky