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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Always Been Difficulties Future Mathematics Mistakes Opportunities Past Unresolved

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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Dangerous Mathematics Most Obvious Word

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

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Any Argument Assumptions Examine Me Proof Taught Therefore Without

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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.

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Topics: About Brief Dozen Fifty Half Indeed Mathematical Mathematician Meeting More Out Papers Presented Rare Really Than Understands Who

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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Absolute Absolute Truth Eternal Makes Pretension Science Truth

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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

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Topics: After Come Comfort Fools Greater Makes Only Our Shall Time Us

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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

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Topics: Fashion King Ruler Sometimes Stupid Very

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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

Topics: Any Art Creative Feeling Fitness Guided In The Past Inspired Mathematicians Mathematics Now Only Past Prospect Rather Sense Simplicity Symmetry Than Things Ultimate Usefulness

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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Always Ever Hated Machine Machinery Only Understood

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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.

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Topics: Experience Game Indeed Making Marks Mathematical Mathematics Meaningless Only Paper Played Refer Which

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 7th, 1883

Died: December 21st, 1960

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