"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."

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Source : Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

Eric Temple Bell

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“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
“How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”
“I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.”
“I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.”
“From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”
“It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not then occurâ€¦so, protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peaceâ€¦those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.”
“A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.”
“Modern man is a hard-working human...”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Alton/Narrator". "Glen or Glenda", 1953.

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