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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
— William Blake
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate…
— John B. Jervis
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All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are…
— Sun Tzu
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that…
— Agnes Repplier
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The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of…
— Erich Fromm
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Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is…
— Allan Bloom
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can…
— Tony Buzan
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The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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