Algebra/history

Famous quotes containing the words algebra and/or history:

    “Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)