Activity Quote by G. H. Hardy

“A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).” quote by G. H. Hardy — Download Open image

“A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).”

G. H. Hardy

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Activity Differences Different Doe Existence Firsts Justify Life May Men Science Two Values

More by G. H. Hardy

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

G. H. Hardy

Image

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas…

G. H. Hardy

Image

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity…

G. H. Hardy

Image

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there…

G. H. Hardy

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G. H. Hardy

Image

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

G. H. Hardy

Image

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best…

G. H. Hardy

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".

G. H. Hardy

Image

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

G. H. Hardy

Image

I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies…

G. H. Hardy

Image

For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of…

G. H. Hardy

Image

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they…

G. H. Hardy

Image

Explore all 78 G. H. Hardy quotes

More Activity quotes

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Henry Giroux

Image

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be…

Pope Leo XIII

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Plato

Image

And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people…

Mohsin Hamid

Image

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

Leo Tolstoy

Image

Fighting's fun, man. It's a great activity, it's a great sport.

Matt Mitrione

Image

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable…

Lisa Lucas

Image

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as…

Pearl S. Buck