Most People Can Do Nothing At All

I Wrote A Great Deal During The Next Ten [early] Years,but Very Little Of Any Importance; There Are Not More Than Four Or Five Papers Which I Can Still Remember With Some Satisfaction.

Beauty Is The First Test: There Is No Permanent Place In The World For Ugly Mathematics.

Pure Mathematics Is On The Whole Distinctly More Useful Than Applied... For What Is Useful Above All Is Technique, And Mathematical Technique Is Taught Mainly Through Pure Mathematics.

For My Part, It Is Difficult For Me To Say What I Owe To Ramanujan - His Originality Has Been A Constant Source Of Suggestion To Me Ever Since I Knew Him, And His Death Is One Of The Worst Blows I Have Ever Had.

All Analysts Spend Half Their Time Hunting Through The Literature For Inequalities Which They Want To Use And Cannot Prove.