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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.
         

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.


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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.



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



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Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.



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



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The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.



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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.



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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.



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 importance who has not also been an innovator.

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 importance who has not also been an innovator.



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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.





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Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.



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