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#arithmetic

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.


Vannevar Bush


#attempt #entirely #far #game #get

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


Ronald Fisher


#arithmetic #arranging #convenient #mathematical #method

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.


Joan Collins


#algebra #always #arithmetic #best #course

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.


Franz Kafka


#comforting #disproportion #only #reflect #seems

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.


Sofia Kovalevskaya


#amount #any #arid #arithmetic #confuse

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.


John Kricfalusi


#arithmetic #art #aspects #bad #cultural

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


Sydney Smith


#horrors #life #scene #without #would

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.


Howard Aiken


#arithmetical #computations #desire #economize #effort

Clever dicks will notice that the figure changes as the boat gets deeper or lighter because the area of the waterplane changes. You can go on enjoying arithmetic all night like this and never go sailing at all.


Bill Cooper


#change

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.


Mignon McLaughlin


#equals #everything #love #minus #nothing






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