Paul Erdos
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.Collection: God
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.Collection: Education
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
My brain is open.
There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.
I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.
Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.
Property is a nuisance.
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.Collection: Mind
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.Collection: Purpose
There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.Collection: Graves
Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.Collection: Years
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.Collection: Teaching
Finally I am becoming stupider no more.Collection: Badass
You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.Collection: Believe
Another roof, another proof.Collection: Collaboration
I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.Collection: Beautiful
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.Collection: Math
Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgottenCollection: Discovery
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.Collection: Beautiful
Here I am: My brain is open.Collection: Here I Am
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.Collection: Education
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.Collection: Education
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.Collection: Nuisance
The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.Collection: Suffering
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.Collection: Math
God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.Collection: Two
If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.Collection: Beautiful
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.Collection: Coffee