Arithmetic Quotes

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

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

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

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

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.

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Arithmetic has began to totter.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

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

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.

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

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

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.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

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.

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.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

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

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.

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

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

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