Top 184 Algebra Quotes & Sayings

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

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

When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

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

I write emotional algebra.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions.

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

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

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

I know we can all remember the days of sitting in algebra class asking ourselves, 'why will I need algebra or chemistry in the future?' The answer was and still remains that advanced math and science classes help high school students develop their analytical and cognitive skills and better prepare them to compete in college and the workplace.

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

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

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

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

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

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.

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.

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

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

The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

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

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.

So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.' 'That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.' 'I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.

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.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

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

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, I took a remedial algebra course in college. I struggled in math in high school and didn’t have confidence to plunge in with a for-credit algebra course. The remedial course gave me a lot of confidence so that when I took the for-credit algebra course it was fairly easy and I got a ‘B,’ of which I remain proud today!

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.

The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

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

Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences!

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

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

Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.

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

They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that non-commutative algebra is just as simple, but it is different.

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

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

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