#arithmetic

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

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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

#equals #everything #love #minus #nothing

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#arithmetic #i #i always #okay #thought

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

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had

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

— Eric Hoffer

#blessings #count #enables #hardest #master

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

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#change #contempt #continue #medicare #mislead

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#mathematics #science