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May Quotes by G. H. Hardy
- [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it…
- Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a…
- I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the…
- Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:…
- What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether…
- I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of…
- The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the…
- I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more…
- Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."
- When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most…
- A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which…
- A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it…
- No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died…
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