Famous quotes containing the words order and/or arithmetic:
“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.... It is all the more serious since, with the loss of my rule V, not only the foundations of my arithmetic, but also the sole possible foundations of arithmetic seem to vanish.”
—Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)