Eric Temple Bell quotes and words of wisdom

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

"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
Found in the topic Immortality.

""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
Found in the topic Obvious.

Interesting Quotes

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking - English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin Delano Roosevelt