Algebra Quotes

• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Real, Math

  Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)

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• As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

  Cokie Roberts

  Prayer, School, Math

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• Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teaching, Math, Intellectual

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear Algebra, stop asking us to find your X, she’s not coming back

  Woody Paige

  Asking, Coming Back, Dear

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

  Paul Halmos

  Learning, Math, Way

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• 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 united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Two, Long, Perfection

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• Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Math, Giving, Generous

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• An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Argument

  "Obituary". "Nature", Volume 260, April 17, 1965.

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• Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

  John Ray

  Arithmetic, Metaphysics

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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

  Education, Teenage, Teaching

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• I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Should Have

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• Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

  Lindsay Fox

  Mistake, Life Is, Geometry

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• When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

  Will Rogers

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Thinking

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

  Sophie Germain

  Geometry

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• Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

  Mary Schmich

  Worry, Trying, Gum

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

  Sophie Germain

  Geometry, Written

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• 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

  Real, Interesting, Mathematics

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.63, Princeton University Press

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• ...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Dream, Art, Strange

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• The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

  Paul Halmos

  Space, Seasoning, Valueless

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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• Always give more than what's expected.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Giving, Expected

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• The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Justice, Elements, Identical

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.89, Cosimo Classics

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• My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

  Mario Testino

  School, Logic, Problem

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

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Uprising, Triangles, Arithmetic

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• The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Curves, Ordinary, Problem

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ordinary, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.70, Open Road Media

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