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> [If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that he would be silly if he surrendered any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/if-a-man-is-in-any-sense-a-real-mathematician-then-it-is-a-hundred-to/)

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

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> [Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-hardy/mathematics-is-not-a-contemplative-but-a-creative-subject-no-one-can/)

[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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