For Any Serious Purpose, Intelligence Is A

Cricket Is The Only Game Where You Are Playing Against Eleven Of The Other Side And Ten Of Your Own.

Asked If He Believes In One G-d, A Mathematician Answered: "yes, Up To Isomorphism".

Exposition, Criticism, Appreciation, Is Work For Second-rate Minds.

The Mathematician Is In Much More Direct Contact With Reality. ... [whereas] The Physicist's Reality, Whatever It May Be, Has Few Or None Of The Attributes Which Common Sense Ascribes Instinctively To Reality. A Chair May Be A Collection Of Whirling Electrons.

I Count Maxwell And Einstein, Eddington And Dirac, Among "real" Mathematicians. The Great Modern Achievements Of Applied Mathematics Have Been In Relativity And Quantum Mechanics, And These Subjects Are At Present At Any Rate, Almost As "useless" As The Theory Of Numbers.