264 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

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    We tend to compliment what other medical facilities, what other physicians, and what other hospital companies do in our community.

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    As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

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    In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

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    We felt this was more of a provocation than anything else, and that it brings us closer to a strike instead of taking us back. Some people felt this was a tit-for-tat from our strike vote, but the strike vote was an expression of the frustration we felt for two years. It was a last resort, not an opening salvo.

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    What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

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    We saw other people going crazy. It was really scary, and we saw the smoke down the hallway.

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    Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

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    We think some folks actually left the pharmacy without their drugs, and we just can't have that happen to our citizens.

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