Carl Sandburg Quotes

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

I was just kind of doing the math.

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

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

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

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.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.

I love math.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

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.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

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

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

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

I do think in numbers. My mind works that way.

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.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.