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

    Lasts   Sin   Arithmetic  
  • 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.

  • Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.

    War   Men   Simple  
    Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

    Life   Math   Culture  
    Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345
  • Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

  • Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

    Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
  • Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

  • The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

    Errors   Effort   Desire  
    "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.
  • At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

    Art   Science   Discovery  
    Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

    Religious   Mean   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.253, Harvard University Press
  • The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

    "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.
  • While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.

    Skills   Worry   Video  
  • 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

    Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.
  • Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

    Baby   Curves   Hands  
    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.19, Om Books International
  • You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

    Nas
    Rap   Sick   Sound  
  • We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

    Poetry   Littles   Poetic  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.270, Delphi Classics
  • The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

    Freedom   Math   Doors  
  • If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

    Believe   Math   Simple  
    John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.
  • ...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

  • The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest. We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.

    Thinking   Long   Looks  
    William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press
  • No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.82
  • Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

    Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions
  • Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

    Psychology   Doe   Three  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I would point out is that most of the change over the past 5,000 years has been arithmetic, and it now logarithmic. Digitization, the whole Moore's law thing where it doubles every 18 months - that is a speed that is faster than most people are used to.

    Past   Years   Law  
    Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
  • A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

    "Mathematical Circles Adieu". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1977.
  • 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.

    "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neumann in "Monte Carlo Method" edited by A.S. Householder, G.E. Forsythe and H.H. Germond, 1951.
  • 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.

    Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.380, Psychology Press
  • Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

  • As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'

    Truth   Men   Path  
    Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.117, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

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