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> [No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/no-discovery-of-mine-has-made-or-is-likely-to-make-directly-or/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

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> [I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/i-have-never-done-anything-useful-no-discovery-of-mine-has-made-or-is/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

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## More by G. H. Hardy

> [Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/cricket-is-the-only-game-where-you-are-playing-against-eleven-of-the/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/the-seriousness-of-a-mathematical-theorem-lies-not-in-its-practical/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/no-discovery-of-mine-has-made-or-is-likely-to-make-directly-or/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/it-is-a-melancholy-experience-for-a-professional-mathematician-to/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/beauty-is-the-first-test-there-is-no-permanent-place-in-the-world-for/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [ They \[formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan\] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/they-formulae-1-10-1-12-of-ramanujan-must-be-true-because-if-they/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/when-the-world-is-mad-a-mathematician-may-find-in-mathematics-an/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/asked-if-he-believes-in-one-g-d-a-mathematician-answered-yes-up-to/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/no-one-should-ever-be-bored-one-can-be-horrified-or-disgusted-but-one/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/i-propose-to-put-forward-an-apology-for-mathematics-and-i-may-be-told/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/for-my-part-it-is-difficult-for-me-to-say-what-i-owe-to-ramanujan-his/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/a-mathematician-like-a-painter-or-poet-is-a-maker-of-patterns-if-his/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/a-month-s-intelligent-instruction-in-the-theory-of-numbes-ought-to-be/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/the-fact-is-there-are-few-more-popular-subjects-than-mathematics-most/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

> [If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/if-intellectual-curiosity-professional-pride-and-ambition-are-the/)

[G. H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-hardy/)

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