Algebra Quotes

145 quotes by 129 authors

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going,… — Carey Mulligan
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. — Billy Connolly
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved… — Diane Cilento
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace… — Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a… — Robert Todd Carroll
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. — Stephen Covey
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? — James M. Barrie
Algebras are geometric facts which are proved. — Omar Khayyam
In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that. — Carlos Slim
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. — John B. S. Haldane
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. — Tommy Hilfiger
Dear Algebra, stop asking us to find your X, sheâ€™s not coming back — Woody Paige
Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you… — Samuel Johnson
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained… — Dusa McDuff
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation… — Thomas Jefferson

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