Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960) was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S.
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. Use this quote
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. Use this quote
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. Use this quote
