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All Quotes by author - E. T. Bell
" Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. "
Argument
Without
Me
" Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler. "
Ruler
Sometimes
Fashion
" 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. "
Art
Simplicity
Mathematics
" 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. "
Mathematics
Experience
Paper
" I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. "
Always
Only
Machine
" It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. "
Mathematics
Immortality
Other
" 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. "
Fifty
Meeting
More
" Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. "
Absolute
Eternal
Makes
" The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. "
Abstract
Practical
Mathematics
" The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. "
Past
Mistakes
Mathematics
" 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. "
Neat
Vice
Silly
" Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. "
Comfort
Us
Time
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