“A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.”
Source: Littlewood's Miscellany
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Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
“When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.”
“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
“The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.”
“The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.”
“I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.”
“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
Source: Littlewood's Miscellany
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”