Quotes on Multiplication

People are reasonably good at estimating how things add up, but for compounding, which involved repeated multiplication, we fail to appreciate how quickly things grow.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.