The Public Does Not Need To Be

There Is Always More In One Of Ramanujan's Formulae Than Meets The Eye, As Anyone Who Sets To Work To Verify Those Which Look The Easiest Will Soon Discover. In Some The Interest Lies Very Deep, In Others Comparatively Near The Surface; But There Is Not One Which Is Not Curious And Entertaining.

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

Mathematics May, Like Poetry Or Music, "promote And Sustain A Lofty Habit Of Mind."

The Study Of Mathematics Is, If An Unprofitable, A Perfectly Harmless And Innocent Occupation.

317 Is A Prime, Not Because We Think So, Or Because Our Minds Are Shaped In One Way Rather Than Another, But Because It Is So, Because Mathematical Reality Is Built That Way.