Top 34 Arithmetical Quotes
#1. It is not the job of mathematicians ... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
Samuil Shatunovsky
#2. Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#3. You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. After a long analysis of Robson's suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the term: he, being about to cause an increase of one in the human population, had decided it was his ethical duty to keep the planet's numbers constant.
Julian Barnes
#5. The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
Friedrich List
#6. The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.
Blaise Pascal
#7. What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?
Gottlob Frege
#8. Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
Plato
#9. The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.
David Hilbert
#11. Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
Stevie Smith
#12. It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka
#13. 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.
Howard Aiken
#15. The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#16. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John Von Neumann
#17. It is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the mind of the "goyim" the very principle of god-head and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs
Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion
#18. And in terms of welfare, of course, the loss suffered will be much greater than the loss in merely arithmetical terms, because the psychological losses of those who are unemployed will greatly outweigh the psychological gains of those with a slightly higher income in terms of purchasing power.
Henry Hazlitt
#19. This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar ...
Jordan Ellenberg
#20. In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill.
Louis P. Benezet
#21. An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
Hans Hofmann
#22. Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
#23. It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.
Tim Tebow
#24. Lilith fought the urge to scream. Why couldn't the bastard have remained dead? What sort of horrible, messed up fate was this? To be plagued by Ibur, after all she'd gone through, in order to be rid of him ...
Georgina Anne Taylor
#25. The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.
Caroline Myss
#26. I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
Hedy Lamarr
#27. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa
#28. It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
Max Lucado
#29. War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.
Graeme Smith
#30. If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.
Richard Branson
Richard Branson
#31. ...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.
E. Sue Blume
#32. He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed
a kind of amiable absurdity.
Dorothy L. Sayers
