Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about. — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits? — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford 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
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
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
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
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 lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra,… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness 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
The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy… — Dave Barry 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
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
...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
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
“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
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 would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty… — George Eliot 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
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because… — W. W. Sawyer 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
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by… — Mary Schmich 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
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