Most People Can Do Nothing At All

It Is Hardly Possible To Maintain Seriously That The Evil Done By Science Is Not Altogether Outweighed By The Good. For Example, If Ten Million Lives Were Lost In Every War, The Net Effect Of Science Would Still Have Been To Increase The Average Length Of Life.

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

[regarding Mathematics,] There Are Now Few Studies More Generally Recognized, For Good Reasons Or Bad, As Profitable And Praiseworthy. This May Be True; Indeed It Is Probable, Since The Sensational Triumphs Of Einstein, That Stellar Astronomy And Atomic Physics Are The Only Sciences Which Stand Higher In Popular Estimation.

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

All Analysts Spend Half Their Time Hunting Through The Literature For Inequalities Which They Want To Use And Cannot Prove.