Bombs Are Probably More Merciful Than Bayonets

What We Do May Be Small, But It Has A Certain Character Of Permanence; And To Have Produced Anything Of The Slightest Permanent Interest, Whether It Be A Copy Of Verses Or A Geometrical Theorem, Is To Have Done Something Utterly Beyond The Powers Of The Vast Majority Of Men.

Good Work Is Not Done By 'humble' Men

Real Mathematics Must Be Justified As Art If It Can Be Justified At All.

Most People Can Do Nothing At All Well

Most People Are So Frightened Of The Name Of Mathematics That They Are Ready, Quite Unaffectedly, To Exaggerate Their Own Mathematical Stupidity.