The Public Does Not Need To Be

The Creative Life Was The Only One For A Serious Man.

A Person’s First Duty, A Young Person’s At Any Rate, Is To Be Ambitious, And The Noblest Ambition Is That Of Leaving Behind Something Of Permanent Value.

Sometimes One Has To Say Difficult Things, But One Ought To Say Them As Simply As One Knows How.

For Any Serious Purpose, Intelligence Is A Very Minor Gift.

Reductio Ad Absurdum, Which Euclid Loved So Much, Is One Of A Mathematician's Finest Weapons. It Is A Far Finer Gambit Than Any Chess Play: A Chess Player May Offer The Sacrifice Of A Pawn Or Even A Piece, But A Mathematician Offers The Game.