Algebra Quote by Simone Weil

We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value.

— Dov Davidoff

All money is essentially merchandize.

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you…

— Stephen Leacock

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

— Rick Warren

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'…

— Michael Atiyah

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its…

— Victor Hugo

Hmm. I'm still not very good at algebra. I just can't figure out Y.

— Anonymous

[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't think your…

— Julia Roberts

Algebra applies to the clouds.

— Victor Hugo