Arithmetic quotes

Discover the beauty and precision of arithmetic with insightful quotes, inspiring you to solve the mathematical mysteries of life. Explore the wonders of numbers and equations on our quote collection dedicated to the art and science of arithmetic.

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

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

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

- Clyde Tombaugh

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

- Ronald Fisher

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

- Eric Hoffer

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

- John Ray

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

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

- John McCarthy