"No employment can be managed without arithmetic,..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
More by Benjamin Franklin
“Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."”
“He that best understands the world, least likes it”
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
More on Education
“Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.”
“True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”
“Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson”
More on Mathematics
“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?”
“He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.”
“Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.”