Quotes with arithmetic

  • If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
  • 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.

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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Laurence Sterne 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Annie Dillard 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.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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  • Mignon McLaughlin In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Paul Scherer Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Sydney Smith What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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