Asked If He Believes In

I Was At My Best At A Little Past Forty, When I Was A Professor At Oxford.

The Public Does Not Need To Be Convinced That There Is Something In Mathematics.

I Do Not Know An Instance Of A Major Mathematical Advance Initiated By A Man Past Fifty

I Believe That Mathematical Reality Lies Outside Us, That Our Function Is To Discover Or Observe It, And That The Theorems Which We Prove, And Which We Describe Grandiloquently As Our "creations," Are Simply The Notes Of Our Observations.

I Count Maxwell And Einstein, Eddington And Dirac, Among "real" Mathematicians. The Great Modern Achievements Of Applied Mathematics Have Been In Relativity And Quantum Mechanics, And These Subjects Are At Present At Any Rate, Almost As "useless" As The Theory Of Numbers.