Paul Erdos Quotes

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

Here I am: My brain is open.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Property is a nuisance.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Another roof, another proof.

Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.