#useful

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

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society. ↗

— John Cameron

#i #knowing #satisfaction #society #something

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. ↗

— John Cameron

#been #i #i am #medical #more

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#because #boy #business #companionship #end

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. ↗

— Al Capp

#anyone #educational #experience #institution #learn

If you aren't rich you should always look useful. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#look #rich #should #useful #you

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ↗

— Freya Stark

#any #art #dose #family #family life

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#make #only #past #present #useful

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#master #servant #technology #useful