Paul Erdos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
-- Paul Erdos

#Math #Years
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdos

#Witty #Coffee #Humorous
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
-- Paul Erdos

#Play #Numbers #May
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.
-- Paul Erdos

#Mind #Enough #Should
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
-- Paul Erdos

#Purpose #Life Is #Mathematics
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.
-- Paul Erdos

#Math #Prime #You Again
Why are numbers beautiful? Itâ€™s like asking why is Beethovenâ€™s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you donâ€™t see why, someone canâ€™t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they arenâ€™t beautiful, nothing is.
-- Paul Erdos

#Beautiful #Numbers #Symphony
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
-- Paul Erdos

#Discovery #Way #Forgotten
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.
-- Paul Erdos

#Blue #Years #Numbers
Property is a nuisance.
-- Paul Erdos

#Nuisance #Property
Another roof, another proof.
-- Paul Erdos

#Collaboration #Proof #Roof
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

#Education #Children #Years
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
-- Paul Erdos

#Problem #Mathematics #Ready
Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance.
-- Paul Erdos

#Nuisance #Said #Theft
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
-- Paul Erdos

#Coffee #Cups #Mathematics
You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.
-- Paul Erdos

#Book #Believe #Believe In God
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.
-- Paul Erdos

#Beautiful #Book #Math
VÃ©gre nem butulok tovÃ¡bb (I've finally stopped getting dumber).
-- Paul Erdos

#Death #Suicide
Finally I am becoming stupider no more.
-- Paul Erdos

#Badass #Becoming
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.
-- Paul Erdos

#Mathematics #Ends #Humans
Here I am: My brain is open.
-- Paul Erdos

#Brain
There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
-- Paul Erdos

#Graves #Plenty
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.
-- Paul Erdos

#Men #Firsts #Zips
If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.
-- Paul Erdos

#Beautiful #Numbers
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
-- Paul Erdos

#Eyebrows #Television #American Education

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