Chess Problems Are The Hymn-tunes Of Mathematics.

There Is No Scorn More Profound, Or On The Whole More Justifiable, Than That Of The Men Who Make For The Men Who Explain.

Bradman Is A Whole Class Above Any Batsman Who Has Ever Lived: If Archimedes, Newton And Gauss Remain In The Hobbs Class, I Have To Admit The Possibility Of A Class Above Them, Which I Find Difficult To Imagine. They Had Better Be Moved From Now On Into The Bradman Class.

I Do Not Know An Instance Of A Major Mathematical Advance Initiated By A Man Past Fifty

The Babylonian And Assyrian Civilizations Have Perished; Hammurabi, Sargon And Nebuchadnezzar Are Empty Names; Yet Babylonian Mathematics Is Still Interesting, And The Babylonian Scale Of 60 Is Still Used In Astronomy.

No One Should Ever Be Bored. … One Can Be Horrified, Or Disgusted, But One Can’t Be Bored.