Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go..
I dunno Lloyd, the French are assholes..
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whethe….
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 trou….
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and….
I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching..
I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life..
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, ….
Can you keep up with the lingo.
There's nothing I won't attempt..
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for wanin….
We travel just to travel..
No one survives life..
Your either in or out. There's no in between..
It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway..
I don't say any word that I don't approve..
A success unshared is a failure..
Nature is not anthropomorphic..
We have to learn everything we do..
Life comes only from life..
Those who live, live off the dead..