Lewis Carroll Quotes

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

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.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

I can do some of the number puzzles.

When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.

Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened