Algebra Quotes

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

I write emotional algebra.

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.

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

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

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

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

The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.

Always give more than what's expected.

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

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

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

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

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

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.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

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

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

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

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

Great people create great acts of kindness.

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation.