Paul Erdős

I don't want to be famous. I just want to do mathematics.

The only thing I ever wanted to do was mathematics.

I am an old man, and I have seen many things. But I have never seen a proof that is not beautiful.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I have no home, but I am at home everywhere.

I am not a genius. I am just a very curious person.

The more problems you solve, the more problems you find.

I am just a tool for mathematics.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

I am not interested in the future. I am interested in the present.

It is better to be a good mathematician than a bad philosopher.

I don't care about money. I care about numbers.

I am not a teacher. I am a learner.

I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of not doing mathematics.

The more you work, the luckier you get.

I don't need a home. I have the world.

I am not a normal person. I am a mathematician.

To prove and conjecture is the purpose of life.

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

The Book is the collection of the most elegant and perfect proofs of mathematical theorems.