Good Work Is Not Done By 'humble'

Greek Mathematics Is The Real Thing. The Greeks First Spoke A Language Which Modern Mathematicians Can Understand... So Greek Mathematics Is 'permanent', More Permanent Even Than Greek Literature.

A Man Who Sets Out To Justify His Existence And His Activities Has To Distinguish Two Different Questions. The First Is Whether The Work Which He Does Is Worth Doing; And The Second Is Why He Does It (whatever Its Value May Be).

It Is Rather Astonishing How Little Practical Value Scientific Knowledge Has For Ordinary Men, How Dull And Commonplace Such Of It As Has Value Is, And How Its Value Seems Almost To Vary Inversely To Its Reputed Utility.

I Believe That Mathematical Reality Lies Outside Us, That Our Function Is To Discover Or Observe It, And That The Theorems Which We Prove, And Which We Describe Grandiloquently As Our "creations," Are Simply The Notes Of Our Observations.

What We Do May Be Small, But It Has A Certain Character Of Permanence; And To Have Produced Anything Of The Slightest Permanent Interest, Whether It Be A Copy Of Verses Or A Geometrical Theorem, Is To Have Done Something Utterly Beyond The Powers Of The Vast Majority Of Men.