Le Corbusier Quotes

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.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

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

God does arithmetic.

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

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

Whenever you can, count.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Odd numbers are masculine while the even numbers are feminine.

The story of pi has been extensively told, no doubt because its history goes back to ancient times, but also because much of it can be grasped without a knowledge of advanced mathematics.

I really love numbers.

I always liked numbers.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.