Algebra Quotes
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.
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I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.
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Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed.
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Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language."
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Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.
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We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
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As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
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[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them.
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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
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The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
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Algebra applies to the clouds.
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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.
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Algebra is a general Method of Computation by certain signs and symbols which have been contrived for the Purpose, and found convenient.
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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You're brilliant? Say something in algebra.
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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Dear Algebra, stop asking us to find your X, she’s not coming back
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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.
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Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.
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The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
