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

Eric Temple Bell

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.”
“If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.”
“I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.”
“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out and he told me that if I wanted to have a long career, I had to be versatile, that I shouldn't just think of myself in one way, because there would come a time when maybe that one thing wasn't working out for me - and I'd still want to earn a living as a writer.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors had OD'd on the pavement.”
“It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.”
“Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.

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