Eric Temple Bell Quotes

• Obvio es la palabra más peligrosa en matemáticas.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Intelligence, Taught

  Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 23-24, (p. 161), 1949.

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• The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

  Eric Temple Bell

  Mistake, Past, Opportunity

  "The Development of Mathematics" by Eric Temple Bell, (p. 283), 1940.

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• Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Imagination, Mind, Shadow

  Eric Temple Bell (1930). “Debunking Science”

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• En su miserable vida de menos de veintisiete años Abel logró tantas cosas de primer orden que uno de los principales matemáticos del siglo XIX pudo decir sin exagerar: "Abel ha dejado a los matemáticos lo suficiente para mantenerlos ocupados durante quinientos años." A la pregunta de cómo había hecho todo esto en los seis o siete años de su vida laboral, Abel respondió: "Estudiando a los maestros, no a los alumnos."

  Eric Temple Bell

  Seven Years, Order, Abel

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Comfort, Fool, Greater

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Games, Paper, Mathematics

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• La base del trabajo creativo es la irreverencia. La base misma del trabajo creativo es la experimentación audaz. Nunca ha habido un creador de importancia duradera que no haya sido también un innovador.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Creative, Irreverence, Importance

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• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Life, Individualism, Mathematics

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Writing, Mean, Eye

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Race, Apes

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• Siempre he odiado la maquinaria, y la única máquina que he entendido ha sido una carretilla, y eso sólo imperfectamente.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Understanding, Machines

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Absolute Truth, Eternal, Pretension

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Views, Understanding, Pieces

  Eric Temple Bell (1946). “The Search for Truth”

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• Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Fashion, Kings, Stupid

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by
  themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for
  ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Order, Class, Ordinary

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Cualquier estudiante impaciente de matemáticas, ciencias o ingeniería al que le moleste que le impongan la simbología algebraica debería intentar prescindir de ella durante una semana.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Engineering, Symbolism, Trying

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• It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Graphic Design, Immortality, Mathematics

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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

  Eric Temple Bell

  Simplicity, Groups, Statistics

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Beauty, Spring, Math

  "The Development of Mathematics" by Eric Temple Bell, (p. 9), 1940.

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• A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Mathematics, Mathematical

  "The Mathematical Experience". Book by Philip J. Davis, "Underneath the Fig Leaf," p.89, 1980.

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• Poincaré [fue] el último hombre que tomó prácticamente todas las matemáticas, puras y aplicadas, como su provincia. ... Pocos matemáticos han tenido la amplitud de visión filosófica de Poincaré, y ninguno le ha superado en el don de la claridad expositiva.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Men, Vision, Lasts

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• Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Teenager, Science, Boys

  "Men of Mathematics".

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• The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Science, Royal, Geometry

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• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Silly, Math, Doubt

  Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”

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