I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
A lot of people... use a calculator!
And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.
In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
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.
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
