Algebra Quotes - Page 4

• Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

  Simone Weil

  Money, Math, Firsts

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.209, U of Nebraska Press

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• I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Together, Would Be

  "Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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• I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

  Ice T

  Education, Writing, Mathematics

  Song: Mind Over Matter, Album: O.G. Original Gangster

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• If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Attitude, Successful

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• 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

  Math, My Favorite, Grades

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• If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

  Diplo

  Fun, Problem, Music Is

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• When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

  Joan Collins

  School, Acting, Literature

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• Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

  Ray Davies

  Motivational, Inspiration, Imagination

  Song: Natural Gift, Album: Think Visual

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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

  Math, Creative, Who Cares

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• Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• Great people create great acts of kindness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Motivational, Kindness, People

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• Don't compromise your principles.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Principles, Compromise

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• Work hard. Someone's always watching.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Hard Work, Hard

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• Listen. Don't just wait to talk.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Waiting

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• I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

  Garth Brooks

  Motivational, Running, Rivers

  Song: The River

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• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Giving, Trying, Investing

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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 reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy

  Science, Giving, Reason

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• I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Class, Numbers

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• No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.

  Michael Atiyah

  Squares, Roots, Understanding

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• Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Attitude, Learning, Mean

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• The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

  John Stuart Mill

  Science, Names, Progress

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings”, p.531

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• Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Way, Assuming

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, World, Knows

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• Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Thinking, Years, Tests

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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