#ape

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. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification. ↗

— James Gordon Bennett

#good #many #newspaper #over #ruined

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#area #audio #away #bin #his

We're all pretty ordinary on paper. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#paper #pretty

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#change #does #escape #every #however

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#faith #lives #loses #merely #our

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#been #british #does #england #ever

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#continuous #fiction #form #i #newspapers