Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature.… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
“Who cares for Algebra? Who delights in solving math? I only want to live my life Along the creative path.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
Dear Algebra stop trying to get us to find your x shes never coming back. And don't even think about asking y. — Mario Tomasello Copy Share Image
Teacher says to student, In Algebra A=B & B=C. It means A=C. Now give relevant example. Student: Sir, I love you &… — Babloo Copy Share Image
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Yes, I took a remedial algebra course in college. I struggled in math in high school and didn’t have confidence to plunge… — Jim Stafford Copy Share Image
“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
“I made an appointment to see him and then ordered another beer. While I was drinking it I did some doodling on… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine… — Ben Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
“I can explain to you why algebra is useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.' He moved his fingers… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
