Abstract Quote by Plato

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

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

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods…

— Le Corbusier

“Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation for life…

— Morris Kline

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

— Bill Nye

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

— Plato

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

— Erskine Bowles

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

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

— Franz Kafka

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom…

— James R Newman