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Science Quotes by G. H. Hardy
- A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes…
- No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game
- Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
- 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,…
- A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with…
- 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 was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration…
- 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…
- I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
- 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…
- The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material…
- I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers…
- There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the…
- It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million…
- 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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