Good Work Is Not Done By 'humble'

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

Good Work Is Not Done By 'humble' Men

I Was At My Best At A Little Past Forty, When I Was A Professor At Oxford.

I Do Not Remember Having Felt, As A Boy, Any Passion For Mathematics, And Such Notions As I May Have Had Of The Career Of A Mathematician Were Far From Noble. I Thought Of Mathematics In Terms Of Examinations And Scholarships: I Wanted To Beat Other Boys, And This Seemed To Be The Way In Which I Could Do So Most Decisively.

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