Paul Erdos Quotes

23 quotes in 187 categories

• Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).
• Finally I am becoming stupider no more.
• Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.
• It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
• Here I am: My brain is open.
• There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
• There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip…
• If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.
• You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.
• The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
• Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
• When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So…
• Another roof, another proof.
• Property is a nuisance.
• A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
• Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
• A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
• God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
• God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.
• I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

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