264 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

The fact that we're attempting to do this at all is, I think, history-making. We call ourselves the Big Easy, but we never seem to take the easy way out.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

We owe it to our ancestors and our children to keep this celebration going. We just can't stop. This is so important for us,

It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.

This year we looked at our funds and we didn't need as much as we took in last year with the tax rate. We didn't need that same tax rate, so we reduced it a penny, which is a little bit below what the effective tax rate was. That's the way we always do our budgets.

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.

We have seen, in just the brief time we have been doing this, positive results in people's lives.

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