"Adde thou upright, reserving every tenne, And write the Digits downe all with thy pen, The proofe (for truth I say,) …"

"The method of arithmetical teaching is perhaps the best understood of any of the methods concerned with elementary st…"

"Arithmetic and geometry, those wings on which the astronomer soars as high as heaven."

"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get far in our understandi…"

"The chemist smiles at the childish efforts of alchemists but the mathematician finds the geometry of the Greeks and t…"

"The Eudemian Summary says that "Pythagoras changed the study of geometry into the form of a liberal education, for he…"

"I couldn't afford to learn it," said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. "I only took the regular course.""What was that?" i…"

"The late Professor Leslie... [i]n his Philosophy of Arithmetic... entered... into much of its history. ...[O]ne princ…"

"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. [Musica est exercitium ar…"

"I do hate sums, There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic an exact science. There are Permutations and Aber…"