46 Quotes by Paul Erdos

[When asked why are numbers beautiful?]It’s like asking why is Ludwig van 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.

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.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems

I'll tell you once,and I'll tell you again.There's always a primebetween n and 2n.

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

In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But humanity certainly won't ever be able to find out everything in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. Numbers themselves are infinite. That's why mathematics is really my only interest.

When he said someone had "died", Erdős meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

I am not qualified to say whether or not God exists. I kind of doubt He does. Nevertheless I'm always saying that the SF( The SF is the supreme Fascist, the Number-One guy up there) has this transfinite book-transfinite being a concept in mathematics that is larger than infinite-that contains the best proofs of all mathematical theorems, proofs that are elegant and perfect.

Végre nem butulok tovább(Finally I am becoming stupider no more) --the epitaph Paul Erdös wrote for himself