"Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced,……" — Eric Temple Bell

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of… - Eric Temple Bell

"Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos."

— Eric Temple Bell

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26 Quotes by Eric Temple Bell

Eric Temple Bell has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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 Chaos Quotes

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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