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G. H. Hardy Quotes

G. H. Hardy quotes

British Mathematician February 7, 1877 – December 1, 1947

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Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician’s fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts. G. H. Hardy
The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still ‘real’ to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand: as Littlewood said to me once, they are not clever schoolboys or ‘scholarship candidates’, but ‘Fellows of another college’. So Greek mathematics is ‘permanent’, more permanent even than Greek literature. Archimedes will be remembered when... G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy quote: "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the..."
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite... G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy quote: "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the..."
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy quote: "Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy quote: "I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy quote: "Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be..."
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. G. H. Hardy
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy quote: "There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more..."
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy quote: "Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten,..."
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. G. H. Hardy
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. 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 are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy

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