Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. E. T. Bell artcreativefelt share on social
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell abstractlivelong Change image and share on social
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. E. T. Bell hateimperfectlymachine Change image and share on social
