It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong, but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table.
Quotes about multiplication (16 Quotes)
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
With the recent multiplication of outbreaks in China they have now decided on countrywide vaccination, but at this point we cannot say if such a massive program is either possible or advisable, ... China can do it.
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table what is national is no longer science.
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.
Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder.
How can you shorten the subject That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon. So died, for each of us, still bravely fighting, our mathematical training except for a set of people called 'mathematicians' born so, like crooks.
Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace it seems like multiplication.
The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of Number
Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children, like the rain, whose causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down and in the hereafter is a severe chastisement and (also) forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure and this world's life is naught but means of deception.
The notion of the Trinity of Gods has enfeebled the belief in one God. A multiplication of beliefs acts as a division of belief and in proportion as anything is divided it is weakened.
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increases the capacity of service.
Our kids are going to be acting out their multiplication tables and singing out their history lessons,