264 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

There's a true, true problem with affordable housing in this city. I'm one of the only guys around that's creating any supply of affordable new condos, and that's pretty scary.

The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

She did a good job. If we were there it may have worried her a little bit.

There's a lot of satire in Mardi Gras. We also take shots at ourselves. We may be down but we're not out.

Since last August the University of Illinois has taken a deliberative, measured approach to the NCAA policy, and that would appear to be what the NCAA is doing in this case. It's good that rather than try to rush to a decision shortly before the policy goes into affect, the NCAA says it is going to give some deliberative review to these appeals.

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

There's a push from the energy committee to look at specific provisions and see how we can make it happen on the ground.

Now the tobacco grower has more to tend to. I got more business looking at some of their secondary crops. So my success here does come indirectly from the growth of contract farming.

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.