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Arithmetic Quotes

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

Authors on Arithmetic Quotes: Carl Friedrich Gauss Henry Spencer Alan Watts Kathryn Lasky Paul Dilascia Mitch Daniels Thomas Browne Jeff Merkley Aristotle Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Thomas Jefferson Jincy Willett Arthur Schopenhauer Gottfried Leibniz Erskine Bowles Tom Robbins John Ray Wallace D. Wattles Gottlob Frege Adam Smith Susan George Josh Billings Ralph Waldo Emerson Grace Hopper Bill Nye C. S. Lewis Harold Davenport John von Neumann Samuil Shatunovsky
2.
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

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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.
Wallace D. Wattles

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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

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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.
John von Neumann

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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray

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

9.
Arithmetic has began to totter.
Gottlob Frege

10.
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
Alan Watts

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

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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
Aristotle

13.
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.
Susan George

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I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.
Erskine Bowles

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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.
Mitch Daniels

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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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Method is the arithmetic of success.
Josh Billings

19.
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
Gottfried Leibniz

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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.
Harold Davenport

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Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
Henry Spencer

22.
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

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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.
Thomas Browne

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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.
Jeff Merkley

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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.
Thomas Jefferson

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Arithmetic is the death of story.
Jincy Willett

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

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

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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
Bill Nye

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