Arithmetic Quotes - Page 8

• Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Reading, Teaching

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• Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Children, Mistake

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.

  Gary Bartz

  Reading, Writing, School

  Interview with John Rogers, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 15, 2005.

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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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• Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Playing Music, Music Is, Music Theory

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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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• 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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• Arithmetic is the death of story.

  Jincy Willett

  Stories

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Children, Reading

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• We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Spiritual, Art, Air

  "Art (Education) Talk with Rosie O'Donnell" by Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 30, 2014.

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• I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

  Grace Hopper

  Running, Computer

  "Grace Hoppe: Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer". Book by Charlene W Billings, p. 74, 1989.

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• Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

  Henry Spencer

  Science, Belief, Substitutes

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• A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Design, Magic

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.385, Modern Library

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• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Past

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• Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

  Amiri Baraka

  Atheist, Talking, People

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• It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

  James Richardson

  Opposites, Rivers, Smell

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• The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

  Jean Cocteau

  Freedom, Math, Doors

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