Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

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.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

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

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

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

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.