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  • Mathematician
  • 1913 - 1996
  • 31 quotes

Paul Erdos, a mathematician (1913 - 1996), is quoted 31 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Math, Beautiful, Numbers and Mathematics.

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My brain is open.

Property is a nuisance.

Here I am: My brain is open.

Another roof, another proof.

Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.

Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.

Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

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.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

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.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

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.

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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