The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
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