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

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

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".

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

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.