"The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of……" — Eric Temple Bell
"The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought."
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26 Quotes by Eric Temple Bell
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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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