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Men Quotes by G. H. Hardy
- There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.
- Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well,…
- 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…
- It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to…
- I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty
- No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game
- If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than…
- It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,…
- 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…
- The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man.
- 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…
- It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
- 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…
- Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
- Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate…
- There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition,…
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