Algebra Quotes

145 quotes by 129 authors

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. — Tim Allen
In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart. — Ambrose Bierce
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath,"… — Richard J. Foster
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear… — Victor Hugo
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of… — John Stuart Mill
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if… — Richard P. Feynman
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
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
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. — Cokie Roberts
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. — Alfred North Whitehead
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Noel-Antoine Pluche
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which… — Mary Somerville

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