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E. T. Bell quotes

Scottish Mathematician February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960

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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: "Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater..."
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: "The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in..."
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: "Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler. E. T. Bell
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. E. T. Bell
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. E. T. Bell
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. E. T. Bell
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: ""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: "Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: "I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever..."
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: "The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and..."
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell
E. T. Bell quote: "Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof...."
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. E. T. Bell

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