Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes. - Eric Temple Bell
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
- Eric Temple Bell
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. - Eric Temple Bell
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. - Eric Temple Bell
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the pre… - Eric Temple Bell
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the pre…
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. - Eric Temple Bell
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future... - Eric Temple Bell
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...
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 whi… - Eric Temple 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 whi…
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting im… - Eric Temple Bell
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting im…
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which w… - Eric Temple Bell
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which w…
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