"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or……" — Eric Temple Bell
"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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26 Quotes by Eric Temple Bell
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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of…
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Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary…
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because…
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It…
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative…
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have…
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More Algebraic Quotes
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To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of…
— Paul Lockhart
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Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were…
— Mal Peet
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In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation,…
— Eric Butterworth
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme…
— Rudolf Clausius
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Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly…
— David Mumford
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The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions…
— Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the…
— Daniel Goleman
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I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff…
— Kato
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Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always…
— Thomas Malthus
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