E. T. Bell Quotes

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. - E. T. Bell

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. - E. T. Bell

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. - E. T. Bell

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

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. - E. T. Bell

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. - E. T. Bell

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - E. T. Bell

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

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. - E. T. Bell

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