“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing”
Mignon McLaughlin
“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.”
Hans Nouwens
“Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics”
Carl Friedrich Gauss
“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
“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
Claude Debussy
“We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.”
Aristotle
“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
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