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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. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

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

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

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

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#also #becomes #lives #longer #mathematics

I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me. ↗

— Lake Bell

#am #best #chain #collect #family

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes. ↗

— Lake Bell

#funny #funny people #lot #people #some

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#address #children #establish #how #identify

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#beautiful #beautiful people #being #comfortable #feel

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#circumstances #dying #either #faculty #marvelous