Eric Temple Bell Quote

We shall leave to the antiquarians the difficult and delicate task of restoring the roses to the cheeks of mathematical mummies.


The Development of Mathematics, To Any Prospective Reader (p. v), McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1945


We shall leave to the antiquarians the difficult and delicate task of restoring the roses to the cheeks of mathematical mummies.

We shall leave to the antiquarians the difficult and delicate task of restoring the roses to the cheeks of mathematical mummies.

We shall leave to the antiquarians the difficult and delicate task of restoring the roses to the cheeks of mathematical mummies.

We shall leave to the antiquarians the difficult and delicate task of restoring the roses to the cheeks of mathematical mummies.