Art Quote by Plato

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

— Pliny the Elder

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

— Pliny the Elder

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you…

— Conrad Wolfram

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being…

— Richard P. Feynman

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

— Lord Kelvin

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

— Adam Smith

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

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

— Pablo Picasso

To the guy who created imaginary numbers in Math: I hate you.

— Anonymous

One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it,…

— RZA

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

— Anonymous