Arithmetic Quotations

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

We've seen a steady improvement from a woeful starting position. That will all help the arithmetic of the GDP numbers. The Bank of England will take heart from this.

Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"" the Mock Turtle replied, ""and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

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

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.

As an arithmetic proposition in many mutual funds, chances are that by the time the great performance has been registered, you, the public investor, are only entering. You're coming in for the last of it.

A lot of children find symbolic arithmetic quite difficult and tedious, yet the children loved our tasks. They were games, the children were very happy to play them, and they were also they were good at them.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

So either they don't know arithmetic or they just haven't thought that through.

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

The idea here is that people are entitled to only the relief that they need but no more. So the bill sets up an elaborate screening mechanism with an arithmetic test to determine the debtor's incomes and their expenses -- after which if they can repay some part of their debts.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.