Algebra Quotes

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.

We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

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

Work hard. Someone's always watching.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

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 rich in structure but weak in meaning.

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

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

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

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

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.

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

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

Listen. Don't just wait to talk.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

Cam was so much clearer, easier to figure out. Like he was algebra and Daniel was calculus.

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to no

Art is fire plus algebra.

It's only in Algebra that two negatives make a positive

Maths is at only one remove from magic.