“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”
— E. T. Bell
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth
“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.”
— E. T. Bell
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry,
“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
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Category: fitness
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