46 Quotes by Paul Erdos

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

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

Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

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

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.

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.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

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.