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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 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