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"I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty"

— G. H. Hardy

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76 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

G. H. Hardy has 76 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a… — George W. Bush
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.… — Albert Camus

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