Eric Temple Bell Quotes:
Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: February 7, 1883 - December 21, 1960
Birthday: February 7
Death: December 21
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.
source: Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
topic: Art, Past, Simplicity, Indefinable, Generalities
