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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 typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.
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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me…
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Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do…
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as…
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new…
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Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.
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The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat…
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I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on,…
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