Talcott Parsons Quotes

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

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

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

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

I love algebra. Love it.

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

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.

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.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

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

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

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

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

Everything is physics and math.