Arithmetic Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Arithmetic.
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“Mathematics”
“He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.”
“The “Disquisitiones Arithmeticae” that great book with seven seals.”
“No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic, also.”
“Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.”
“Arithmetic and geometry, those wings on which the astronomer soars as high as heaven.”
“Arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and geometrical figures are graphic formulas.”
“Wikipedia: Arithmetic”
“Wikibooks: Arithmetic”
“But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.”
“Wikicommons: Arithmetic”
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
“Arithmetic is the science of the Evaluation of Functions, Algebra is the science of the Transformation of Functions.”
“The science of arithmetic may be called the science of exact limitation of matter and things in space, force, and time.”
“The method of arithmetical teaching is perhaps the best understood of any of the methods concerned with elementary studies.”
“God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man. [Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.]”
“The New Student's Reference Work (1914), Wikisource”
“Arithmetic by P.H. Vander Weyde (1879), Wikisource”
“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. [Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi.]”