Chess Problems Are The Hymn-tunes

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.

For Any Serious Purpose, Intelligence Is A Very Minor Gift.

No One Has Yet Discovered Any Warlike Purpose To Be Served By The Theory Of Numbers Or Relativity, And It Seems Unlikely That Anyone Will Do So For Many Years.

No Mathematician Should Ever Allow Himself To Forget That Mathematics, More Than Any Other Art Or Science, Is A Young Man's Game