For Any Serious Purpose, Intelligence

The Study Of Mathematics Is, If An Unprofitable, A Perfectly Harmless And Innocent Occupation.

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

Mathematics May, Like Poetry Or Music, "promote And Sustain A Lofty Habit Of Mind."

The Case For My Life... Is This: That I Have Added Something To Knowledge, And Helped Others To Add More

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.