The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.

In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.