Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

I was good with numbers.

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.

I am bad at numbers and math. Always was!

I am very bad with numbers.

I always liked numbers.

Numbers have always come easy to me.

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

Math was always my best subject growing up.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

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

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.