(15 quotes found)
“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
“Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics”
Carl Friedrich Gauss
“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
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing”
Mignon McLaughlin
“God does arithmetic”
“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
“No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is an arithmetically engineered slowdown.”
Brian Jones
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