E. T. Bell quote: "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."

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician in...
E. T. BELL

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that bu...
E. T. BELL

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
E. T. BELL

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
E. T. BELL

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immor...
E. T. BELL

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the...
E. T. BELL

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. BELL

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - i...
E. T. BELL

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportuniti...
E. T. BELL

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or fi...
E. T. BELL

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. BELL

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, ...
E. T. BELL

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on p...
E. T. BELL

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only b...
T. E. HULME

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the on...
T. E. HULME

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of th...
T. E. HULME

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
T. E. HULME

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existenc...
T. E. HULME

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibili...
T. E. HULME

We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.
E. T. TRIGG

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. KALEM

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing com...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside app...
T. E. HULME

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. LAWRENCE

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and t...
T. E. LAWRENCE

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. LAWRENCE

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfe...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation...
T. E. LAWRENCE

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each ...
T. E. LAWRENCE

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to...
T. E. LAWRENCE

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It ...
T. E. HULME

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow w...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-wor...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfi...
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T. E. LAWRENCE

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. LAWRENCE

All men dream...... But not equally..Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds w...
T. E. LAWRENCE

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, b...
T. E. LAWRENCE

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor...
T. E. KALEM

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. KALEM

He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.
T. E. KALEM

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
T. E. LAWRENCE

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial r...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite ...
TOBIN BELL

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative ...
JOSHUA BELL

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
TED BELL

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is ...
TED BELL

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that'...
TED BELL

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don&...
TED BELL

While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found tha...
LAKE BELL

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stre...
LAKE BELL

I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding ...
LAKE BELL

I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounc...
LAKE BELL

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I ...
LAKE BELL

'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believ...
LAKE BELL

I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a w...
LAKE BELL

When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, ...
LAKE BELL

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them...
LAKE BELL

My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up t...
LAKE BELL

There have been times where you do the red carpet in a certain shoe, and you go into the bathroom, y...
LAKE BELL

'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish sil...
LAKE BELL

My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comical...
LAKE BELL

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to sch...
LAKE BELL

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
LAKE BELL

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess...
LAKE BELL

At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's ...
LAKE BELL

I'm super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. 'In a World...' was my love letter t...
LAKE BELL

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny s...
LAKE BELL

I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and membe...
LAKE BELL

Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all abo...
LAKE BELL

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
BELL HOOKS

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren...
DRAKE BELL

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 year...
DRAKE BELL

You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the sa...
BRIAN BELL

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the wor...
BELL HOOKS

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the ...
DANIEL BELL

But in action, one defies one's character.
DANIEL BELL

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; ...
DANIEL BELL

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land...
DANIEL BELL

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
DANIEL BELL

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
DANIEL BELL

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins ...
DANIEL BELL

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, w...
ROB BELL

I think this is a highly organized abduction. There would have been a period of surveillance and the...
ALAN BELL

It has been on the stocks for several years, and originally it was conceived as a 20-screen cinema, ...
ALAN BELL

In the long run I think it will hurt parents.
ALAN BELL

It's just the same as any Canadian citizen that's gone missing in another country. They will monitor...
ALAN BELL

It sounds like it was a random criminal action because there was an individual who used his credit c...
ALAN BELL

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of...
WILLIAM BELL

One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to ...
MARVEL BELL

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're r...
JAMIE BELL

The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are hea...
BELL HOOKS

Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their re...
BELL HOOKS

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything roma...
BELL HOOKS

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
JOSHUA BELL

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
ALEXANDER BELL

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
ALEXANDER BELL

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men
ALEXANDER BELL

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
ALEXANDER BELL

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
ALEXANDER BELL

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a m...
ALEXANDER BELL

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
ALEXANDER BELL

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed do...
ALEXANDER BELL

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a f...
ALEXANDER BELL

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
ALEXANDER BELL

An issue (Macintosh) users need to be aware of is that in some cases they can be a carrier - effecti...
ALLAN BELL

The biggest issue customers have is with zero-day attacks. In the case of this virus, there was plen...
ALLAN BELL

No local outbreaks reported and very few reports of infections. Most companies are seeing the virus ...
ALLAN BELL

If we do nothing, we will lose the business we already have to a growing number of competitors, incl...
ALLAN BELL

We now find ourselves in a space race of our own. (This is) an increasingly volatile and aggressive ...
ALLAN BELL

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist...
ROB BELL

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with Go...
ROB BELL

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
ROB BELL

Never love a woman so much that she has the power to destroy you when she slips between your fingers...
HATI BELL

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.

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E. T. Bell

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.

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