Eric Temple Bell Quote

Just as "beauty is its own excuse for being," so mathematics needs no apology for existing.


The Queen of the Sciences, Chapter VI (p. 82), The Williams & Wilkins Company. 1931, "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.


Just as beauty is its own excuse for being, so mathematics needs no apology for existing.

Just as beauty is its own excuse for being, so mathematics needs no apology for existing.

Just as beauty is its own excuse for being, so mathematics needs no apology for existing.

Just as beauty is its own excuse for being, so mathematics needs no apology for existing.