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The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics. — G.H. Hardy

Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts. — G.H. Hardy

A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way. — G.H. Hardy

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

Most people can do nothing at all well — G.H. Hardy

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how. — G.H. Hardy

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove. — G.H. Hardy

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. — G.H. Hardy

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift. — G.H. Hardy

Good work is not done by 'humble' men — G.H. Hardy

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college. — G.H. Hardy

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full. — G.H. Hardy

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words. — G.H. Hardy

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

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets — G.H. Hardy

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. — G.H. Hardy

The case for my life ... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more — G.H. Hardy

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. — G.H. Hardy

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty — 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

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. — 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

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. — G.H. Hardy

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. I — G.H. Hardy

The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man. — G.H. Hardy

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — 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. — G.H. Hardy

A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics. — G.H. Hardy

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

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G.H. Hardy

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. — G.H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. — G.H. Hardy

No one should ever be bored. ... One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can't be bored. — G.H. Hardy

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G.H. Hardy