"The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand; as Littlewood said to me once, they are…"

"(A. S. Besicovitch) A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. (Pioneer work is clu…"

"'The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it--would.'"

"Landau kept a printed form for dealing with proofs of Fermat's last theorem. 'On page blank, lines blank to blank, yo…"

"I read in the proof-sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: 'As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his pers…"

"I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ou…"

"If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he w…"

"I began on a question on elementary theory of numbers, in which I felt safe in my school days. It did not come out, n…"

"The difference when you do know (when, for example, we are looking for a new proof) is enormous. Like a Bridge proble…"

"It was Mr. Littlewood (I believe) who remarked that "every positive integer was one of his personal friends.""