"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all i..." — G. H. Hardy

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.