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Eric Temple Bell Quotes
«Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
(Biographer, Educator, Mathematician, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumptions, Euclid, examine
«Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.»
«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»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
(Biographer, Educator, Mathematician, Writer)
| Keywords:
consuming, famine, feast, finality, imagines, impel, impelling, impels, nevertheless, uncritical
«It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
(Biographer, Educator, Mathematician, Writer)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
disconcerting, Marks, perennial, sciences, youthfulness
«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.»