Numerical Fluency Quotes

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

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

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

A good counter needs no calculator.

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

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

I am very bad with numbers.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.