The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

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

Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

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.