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Facts about E. T. Bell

Occup.Mathematician
FromScotland
BornFebruary 7, 1883
DiedDecember 21, 1960
Aged77 years

Summary

E. T. Bell was a famous Mathematician from Scotland, who lived between February 7, 1883 and December 21, 1960. He/she became 77 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by T. Bell.

13 Famous quotes by E. T. Bell

Small: Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us
"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us"
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Small: It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortal
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences"
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Small: Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the
"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"
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Small: Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the as
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions"
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Small: The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future"
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Small: The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it b
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes"
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Small: Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth
"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth"
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Small: Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indee
"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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Small: If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on pape
"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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Small: The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but
"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"
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Small: Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics"
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Small: I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but i
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly"
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Small: Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler"
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