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

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

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

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

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.

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

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.