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• Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies… — Tim Allen
• Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But… — Richard J. Foster
• There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain… — Wallace D. Wattles
• Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its… — Victor Hugo
• If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions… — Tom Stoppard
• The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever… — John Stuart Mill
• It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on… — Richard P. Feynman
• Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five… — Woody Allen
• We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is… — William Kingdon Clifford
• Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the… — James Joseph Sylvester
• I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic… — Nicolas Malebranche

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