Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.