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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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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one…
— John Banville
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
— Jacques Monod
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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…
— G. H. Hardy
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Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching…
— Rajneesh
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The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
— Clarence H. Burns
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They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.
— Nasser Hussain
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In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.
— Don King
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If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or…
— Maya Angelou
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The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game.
— Kevin Keegan
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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,…
— Arthur Koestler
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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and…
— William Faulkner
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