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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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Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.
— Heinrich Hertz
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The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...…
— Hermann Minkowski
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If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the…
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of…
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Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed,…
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This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time…
— Albert Einstein
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Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates…
— Dean Kamen
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Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
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Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
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Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful ...
— Albert Einstein
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