Accounts Quote by John Stuart Mill

“Logic, according to the conception here formed of it, has no concern with the nature of the act of judging or believing; the consideration…

— John Stuart Mill

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra…

— Omar Khayyam

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

— Alan Watts

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

— Nathan Kress

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…

— Lynn Steen

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

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

— Sophie Germain

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

— Anonymous

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For…

— Christopher Robin Milne

As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if…

— Herbert Hoover

An exact science is one that admits loss.

— Genesis P-Orridge

[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism… [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all…

— Pope Pius IX

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

— H. L. Mencken