Eric Temple Bell Quotes - Page 2

• Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Opponents, Logic, Mathematics

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• The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Science, Impact, Challenges

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• Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable
  three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Strong, Three, Might

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• 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.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Art, Inspiration, Past

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Numbers, Thrones

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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