Apology Quote 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

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

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

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

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

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the…

— G. H. Hardy

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

— G. H. Hardy

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

— G. H. Hardy

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

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

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

A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as…

— G. H. Hardy