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Eric Temple Bell Quotes

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler Picture Quote #1

Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs Picture Quote #1

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions Picture Quote #1

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos Picture Quote #1

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The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity Picture Quote #1

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics Picture Quote #1

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 prevailing famine of substance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is Picture Quote #1

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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future Picture Quote #1

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences Picture Quote #1

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly Picture Quote #1

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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) 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 (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) 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 prevailing famine of substance (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) 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 (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) 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 (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences (Eric Temple Bell Quotes) I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly (Eric Temple Bell Quotes)