"Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically……" — Eric Temple Bell
"Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition."
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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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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should…
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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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