"Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and……" — G. H. Hardy
"Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind.""
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76 Quotes by G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy has 76 quotes on this site.
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer…
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This…
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original…
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of…
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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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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a…
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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…
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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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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly,…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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