Amenities Quote by 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 of the world.”

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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