"If I knew I was going to die today, I think I should still want to hear the cricket scores."

"If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow …"

"He could remember the idiosyncrasies of numbers in an almost uncanny way. It was Littlewood who said that every posit…"

"I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All ph…"

"… there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who ex…"

"If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full."

"Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who…"

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immo…"

"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it…"

"Mathematicians have constructed a very large number of different systems of geometry, Euclidean or non-Euclidean, of …"