I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write…

— Mary Roach

“It was like the time he'd failed algebra and felt so relieved, so free: failure was definite, a certainty, and there is always peace…

— Truman Capote

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be…

— James Joseph Sylvester

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

— Colin Maclaurin

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

— Rick Warren

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'…

— Michael Atiyah

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its…

— Victor Hugo

Hmm. I'm still not very good at algebra. I just can't figure out Y.

— Anonymous

[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't think your…

— Julia Roberts

Algebra applies to the clouds.

— Victor Hugo

Great people create great acts of kindness.

— Miguel de Cervantes

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

I write emotional algebra.

— Anais Nin

“Who cares for Algebra? Who delights in solving math? I only want to live my life Along the creative path.”

— Jennifer Niven