Paul Erdos Quotes
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It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
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Finally I am becoming stupider no more.
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Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.
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There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
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Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten
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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 that makes me two and a half billion.
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God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.
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Another roof, another proof.
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If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.
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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
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Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
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God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.
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Property is a nuisance.
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You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.
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A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
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I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
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The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.
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Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
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It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.
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Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).
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Here I am: My brain is open.
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Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.
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God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
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The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
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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 up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.
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Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.
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