Arithmetic Quotes

You can do the arithmetic. - Tara O'Toole

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? - Sydney Smith

We've seen a steady improvement from a woeful starting position. That will all help the arithmetic of the GDP numbers. The Bank of England will take heart from this. - Andrew McLaughlin

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

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

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. - Cliff Fadiman

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters . . . - Clifton Fadiman

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. - Bertrand Russell

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. - Marvin Minsky

They are tested in reading, writing and arithmetic. And in certain grade levels, we have science exams and social studies. - Terry McAteer