"For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very…" — G. H. Hardy

"For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift."

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76 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer…
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This…
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original…
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of…
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least…
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a…
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics…
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the…
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly,…

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