Arithmetic Quotes - Page 7

• I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It was kind of structured so you ended up knowing everything you were supposed to know, arithmetic, Latin, whatever it was. But almost always it was under your own initiative.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, School, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I would point out is that most of the change over the past 5,000 years has been arithmetic, and it now logarithmic. Digitization, the whole Moore's law thing where it doubles every 18 months - that is a speed that is faster than most people are used to.

  Ken Moelis

  Past, Years, Law

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear of losing our mother. We have that from the moment we realize we can lose her just in the supermarket. As a child, it was more terrifying than arithmetic.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not George W. Bush. To this day, John Kerry probably thinks he won Ohio in 2004 because he had suspicions about the vote in Ohio. And, by the way, Richard Nixon had suspicions in 1960 about the vote in Chicago when he lost to JFK.

  David Remnick

  Country, Thinking, Ohio

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.

  Stephen Leacock

  Art, Unbroken, Four

  Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies (1981). “The Penguin Stephen Leacock”, Penguin ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada

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• I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

  Jeff Merkley

  Fighting, Vote, I Am Pretty

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Arithmetic is the death of story.

  Jincy Willett

  Stories

  Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.248, Macmillan

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• I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hate, Two, Boring

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

  Helen Keller

  Baby, Curves, Hands

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.19, Om Books International

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• Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Playing Music, Music Is, Music Theory

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• Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

  David Hilbert

  Simple, Small Numbers, Principles

  David Hilbert (1910). “The Foundations of Geometry”

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• Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Real, Math, Thinking

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• Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Jobs, Children, Reading

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• Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is
  innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk,
  talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends,
  even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or
  remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written
  language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and
  skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to
  have evolved.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Reading, School

  "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature". Book by Steven Pinker, 2002.

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• The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.

  Robert Prechter

  Moving, Loss, Average

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• The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

  Penn Jillette

  Writing, Simple, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Mother, Heart, Division

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press

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• Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.

  Saharon Shelah

  Science, Civilization, Numbers

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• The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.

  David van Dantzig

  Determination, Simple, Squares

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• Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.

  Gerolamo Cardano

  Art, Suffering, Jurisprudence

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• ... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

  Alan Watts

  Banking, Mathematics, Algebra

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.43, New World Library

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• We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Book, Adventure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

  Keith Devlin

  Important, Needs, Mathematics

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• I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

  Ice Cube

  Heart, Boys, Nuts

  "Ice Cube's Return to Gangsta [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 15, 2014.

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• The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Years, Three, Cost

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