Top 29 Paul Erdos Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I'll tell you once,
and I'll tell you again.
There's always a prime
between n and 2n.
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#3. Finally I am becoming stupider no more.
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#4. It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
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#5. God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
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#6. Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems
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#10. Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
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#11. 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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#12. When Euler died, he simply said I am finished and collapsed, to which someone in the audience muttered darkly" Another conjecture of Euler is proved
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#13. I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.
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#14. A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
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#15. Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
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#16. 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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#17. God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.
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#18. There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
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#19. If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.
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#20. 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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#21. Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance.
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#22. You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.
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#23. Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.
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#27. Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper
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#29. The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
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