264 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 people to do that.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

There's no question that the university and the board of trustees are going to have to look at what the NCAA put out today and make a determination on how it impacts the institution and go from there. Certainly some things remain to be answered from today and one of those things is the definition of what is hostile or abusive.

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

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.

There's no question I'm going to have to come in and separate myself from the other players, somehow, some way.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

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