Arithmetic Quote by Noam Chomsky

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood…

— Chris Bosh

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

When in school, I was interested in many things other than studies.

— Rajiv Menon

I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether…

— Mary Beard

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about…

— Sheila Heti

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite…

— George Washington Carver

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is…

— Ursula Burns

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach…

— Brit Marling

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from…

— Michael P. Anderson

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

— Ginni Rometty

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

— Mario Testino

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

— Doris Lessing