Lewis Carroll Quotes

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

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

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.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

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 have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Whenever you can, count.

I was good with numbers.

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

I was just kind of doing the math.

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.