Quotes by : G.H. Hardy

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough....

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said....

The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent....

The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like....

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas....

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate....

The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will....

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad,....

The ‘seriousness’ of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually....