“If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game play...” — E. T. Bell Quote

“If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.”

“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”

“The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.”

“Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.”

“It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.”

“Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.”

“Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.”

“Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.”

“A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.”

“Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.”

“This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.”

“I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.”