A Chess Problem Is Simply An Exercise

When The World Is Mad, A Mathematician May Find In Mathematics An Incomparable Anodyne. For Mathematics Is, Of All The Arts And Sciences, The Most Austere And The Most Remote, And A Mathematician Should Be Of All Men The One Who Can Most Easily Take Refuge Where, As Bertrand Russell Says, "one At Least Of Our Nobler Impulses Can Best Escape From The Dreary Exile Of The Actual World."

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

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

Chess Problems Are The Hymn-tunes Of Mathematics.

A Mathematician, Like A Painter Or A Poet, Is A Maker Of Patterns.