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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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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why…
— Mortimer Adler
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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and…
— Annie Besant
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People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how…
— Jeff Bezos
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or…
— David R. Brower
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of…
— Robert Browning
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
— Edmund Burke
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do…
— Ray Charles
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object…
— Roger Angell
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No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle…
— Marie-Luise Gothein
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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