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Carl Sandburg
(6 Jan 1878 - 22 Jul 1967)
American journalist and author.
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Science Quotes by Carl Sandburg (8 quotes)
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 115.
Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven five six bundle of sticks.
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 115.
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 115.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky—or the answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 115.
Arithmetic is where you have to multiply—and you carry the multiplication table in your head and hope you won’t lose it.
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 116.
Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win if you know how many you had before you lost or won.
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 115.
If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is better in arithmetic, you or your mother?
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 116.
If you take a number and double it and double it again and then double it a few more times, the number gets bigger and bigger and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you what the number is when you decide to quit doubling.
— Carl Sandburg
From 'Arithmetic', Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (1960), 115-116.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
