"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten,……" — G. H. Hardy
"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean."
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76 Quotes by G. H. Hardy
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No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least…
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
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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…
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In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
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