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

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

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

317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

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.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

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