From Helen Prochazka's scrapbook.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. (Eric Temple Bell, 1883-1960) In H. Eves, 1977, "Mathematical Circles Adieu", Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. (Nikolai Lobatchevsky) In N. Rose, 1988, "Mathematical Maxims and Minims", Raleigh NC: Rome Press.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have …