I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. A Mathematician's Apology , London, Cambridge University Press, 1941.
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied.
For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. In great mathematics there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. A Mathematician's Apology , London, Cambridge University Press, 1941.