All Eric Temple Bell Quotes
- 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… Asserted
- Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. Absolute
- The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. Been
- Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. All
- The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity. Elementary
- Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Any