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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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate…
— George Washington Carver
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…
— Vincent Canby
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Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.
— Tyga
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It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting…
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After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for…
— Lisa Edelstein
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Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men…
— Jack Donovan
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There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find…
— Joe Biden
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Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture…
— Gerhard Richter
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So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
— Jonathan Stroud
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A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving…
— G. H. Hardy
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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