The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

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

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.