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G. H. Hardy has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of…
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be…
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or…
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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…
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',…
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which…
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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…
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of…
— Annie Besant
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the…
— Geraldine Brooks
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite…
— Elinor Wylie
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the…
— Rajneesh
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
— Ansel Adams
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear…
— Kingsley Amis
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
— Corbin Bernsen
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission…
— Alexander Herzen
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