Algebra Quotes
145 quotes by 123 authors
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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes…
— Carl Jung
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
— John Ray
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ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
— Colin Maclaurin
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The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the…
— Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.
— Al Yankovic
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If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.
— Diplo
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Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.
— Jennifer Niven
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I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.
— Iain Dowie
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
— Will Rogers
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A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much…
— Frederick Lenz
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I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in…
— Temple Grandin
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
— E. W. Howe
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
— Fran Lebowitz
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating…
— Danica McKellar
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization…
— Susan Sontag
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So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of…
— Arundhati Roy
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I write emotional algebra.
— Anais Nin
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The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a…
— Dave Barry
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