Eric Temple Bell Quote

The straight line of the geometers does not exist in the material universe. It is a pure abstraction, an invention of the imagination or, if one prefers, an idea of the Eternal Mind.


The Magic of Numbers, Chapter 7 (p. 57), McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1946


The straight line of the geometers does not exist in the material universe. It is a pure abstraction, an invention of the imagination or, if one...

The straight line of the geometers does not exist in the material universe. It is a pure abstraction, an invention of the imagination or, if one...

The straight line of the geometers does not exist in the material universe. It is a pure abstraction, an invention of the imagination or, if one...

The straight line of the geometers does not exist in the material universe. It is a pure abstraction, an invention of the imagination or, if one...