"The only royal road to elementary geometry is…" — Eric Temple Bell
"The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity."
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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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More Elementary Quotes
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
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We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or…
— Richard Riley
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God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are…
— Oswald Chambers
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are…
— Amartya Sen
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and…
— Alistair Cooke
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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific…
— John Dewey
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If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances…
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto'…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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