E. T. Bell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.”