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Paul Erdos Quotes

Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1996), Birth: 26-3-1913, Death: 20-9-1996 Paul Erdos Quotes
1.
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.
Paul Erdos

2.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul Erdos

3.
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
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4.
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
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5.
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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6.
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
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7.
You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.
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8.
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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9.
There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
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10.
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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11.
Property is a nuisance.
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12.
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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13.
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.
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14.
I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
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God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.
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16.
Finally I am becoming stupider no more.
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17.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
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18.
Here I am: My brain is open.
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19.
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.
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20.
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.
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21.
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
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22.
Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).
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23.
Another roof, another proof.
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24.
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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25.
If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.
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26.
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.
Paul Erdos

27.
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
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28.
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.
Paul Erdos