The Arithmetic Quotes

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

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

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

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.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Thus number 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.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

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

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

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

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

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

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

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.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

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.

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

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.