#pa

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

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

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

I sympathize with every kitchen porter. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#i #kitchen #porter #sympathize

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #because #demanding #get #i

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#able #art #big #called #century

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#embarrassingly #empathetic #enough #fault #front

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#also #counted #i #i think #only

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#coup #coups #essentially #military #opened