"The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable,……" — G. H. Hardy
"The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation."
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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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More Harmless Quotes
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather…
— Margaret Halsey
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Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade…
— Philip Kapleau
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Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could…
— Lester Grinspoon
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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks,…
— Mark Twain
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler
— Albert Einstein
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The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how…
— Clarence Day
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A harmless necessary cat.
— William Shakespeare
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Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
— John Dryden
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The…
— Wilfred Trotter
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I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the…
— Richard Dawkins
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