"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid…" — Eric Temple Bell

"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."

— Eric Temple Bell

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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…
Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary…
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should…
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because…
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It…
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative…
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have…

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More Fashion Quotes

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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact… — Giorgio Armani
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her… — Jane Austen
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Francis Bacon
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. — David Bailey
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey

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