Eric Temple Bell Quote

Wisdom was not born with us, nor will it perish when we descend into the shadows with a regretful backward glance that other eyes than ours are already lit by the dawn of a new and truer mathematics.


The Queen of the Sciences, Chapter X (p. 138), The Williams & Wilkins Company. 1931


Wisdom was not born with us, nor will it perish when we descend into the shadows with a regretful backward glance that other eyes than ours are...

Wisdom was not born with us, nor will it perish when we descend into the shadows with a regretful backward glance that other eyes than ours are...

Wisdom was not born with us, nor will it perish when we descend into the shadows with a regretful backward glance that other eyes than ours are...

Wisdom was not born with us, nor will it perish when we descend into the shadows with a regretful backward glance that other eyes than ours are...