No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

Toute passe–yesterday’s truth is to-day’s deception, and yesterday’s false inference may be to-morrow’s revelation.

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.