Bombs Are Probably More Merciful Than Bayonets

If A Man Is In Any Sense A Real Mathematician, Then It Is A Hundred To One That His Mathematics Will Be Far Better Than Anything Else He Can Do, And That He Would Be Silly If He Surrendered Any Decent Opportunity Of Exercising His One Talent In Order To Do Undistinguished Work In Other Fields. Such A Sacrifice Could Be Justified Only By Economic Necessity Of Age.

A Mathematician, Like A Painter Or Poet, Is A Maker Of Patterns. If His Patterns Are More Permanent Than Theirs, It Is Because They Are Made With Ideas.

No One Should Ever Be Bored. … One Can Be Horrified, Or Disgusted, But One Can’t Be Bored.

There Is No Scorn More Profound, Or On The Whole More Justifiable, Than That Of The Men Who Make For The Men Who Explain.

Archimedes Will Be Remembered When Aeschylus Is Forgotten, Because Languages Die And Mathematical Ideas Do Not. "immortality" May Be A Silly Word, But Probably A Mathematician Has The Best Chance Of Whatever It May Mean.