Quotes by : G.H. Hardy

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it,....

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which....

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....

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a....

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

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than....

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and....

It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the....

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