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«To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.»
Author: Cliff Fadiman
| Keywords:
annual, arithmetic, commuter, commuters, consents, consultation, rings, timetable, timetables, tumble
«Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.»
Author: Dr. Louis Orr
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
arithmetic, formula, reduce, statesmanship, sunset
«What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Life,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
arithmetic, horrors, scene
«The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.»
«The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Controversy
| Keywords:
arithmetic, controversies, no-good, persecution, savage, theology
«That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accomplished fact, activities, arithmetic, basest
«We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
arithmetic, geometrical
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