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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
~ E. T. Bell
Any
Argument
Assumptions
Examine
Me
Proof
Taught
Therefore
Without
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
~ E. T. Bell
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
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
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.
~ E. T. Bell
Experience
Game
Indeed
Making
Marks
Mathematical
Mathematics
Meaningless
Only
Paper
Played
Refer
Which
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
~ E. T. Bell
Disconcerting
Immortality
Itself
Marks
Mathematics
Off
Other
Perennial
Sciences
Which
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"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
~ E. T. Bell
Dangerous
Mathematics
Most
Obvious
Word
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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.
~ E. T. Bell
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
Absolute
Absolute Truth
Eternal
Makes
Pretension
Science
Truth
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
~ E. T. Bell
Abstract
Also
Becomes
Lives
Longer
Mathematics
More
Possibly
Practical
Therefore
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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
Always
Been
Difficulties
Future
Mathematics
Mistakes
Opportunities
Past
Unresolved
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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.
~ E. T. Bell
Any
Application
Austere
Degenerate
Doubt
Formulas
General
Incapable
Indeed
Neat
No Doubt
Particular
Pretty
Pursuit
Quest
Quickly
Silly
Theorems
Very
Vice
Which
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
~ E. T. Bell
After
Come
Comfort
Fools
Greater
Makes
Only
Our
Shall
Time
Us
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E. T. Bell
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Mathematician
BirthDate
07 February, 1883
DeathDate
21 December, 1960
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Scotland
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