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This quote is just one of 5 total Eric Temple Bell quotes in our collection. Eric Temple Bell is known for saying 'It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.' as well as some of the following quotes.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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.
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.
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
This quote is just one of 5 total Eric Temple Bell quotes in our collection. Eric Temple Bell is known for saying 'It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.' as well as some of the following quotes.