"Young men should prove theorems, old men should…" — G. H. Hardy

"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."

— 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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More Book Quotes

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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