"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic." — John Ray
"Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic."
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51 Quotes by John Ray
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
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In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
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Never meet trouble half-way.
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He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in…
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Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of…
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
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The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
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They love too much that die for love.
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
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More Algebra Quotes
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But…
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain…
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its…
— Victor Hugo
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions…
— Tom Stoppard
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever…
— John Stuart Mill
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five…
— Woody Allen
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the…
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