Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of — Eric Temple Bell
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable — Eric Temple Bell
If indeed, as hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless — Eric Temple Bell
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow — Eric Temple Bell
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a — Eric Temple Bell
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been — Eric Temple Bell
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract – and therefore, possibly also the more practical – it becomes. — Eric Temple Bell
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician — Eric Temple Bell
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