264 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

We will be trying to chase down leads or find any evidence that we can find.

This was very much a low blow. Scab labor in the labor community is not something people take very lightly.

We cannot afford not to have Mardi Gras. That message would be -- New Orleans is closed for business.

I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.

This year's baby dragons will have cups, spoons and bracelets and necklaces.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

What concerns the record industry is that with the move to digital delivery, consumer behavior changes to where people believe any and all music should be available for free.

It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.