264 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Most people can do nothing at all well

People think that the industry is dying, but in reality it is as strong as ever; it has just shifted in a new direction. Most people think of textiles as clothes, and that is all they know, but it is everything from artificial arteries to chemically resistant suits for fire fighters.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

People seem to want to hug New Orleans right now, and this is one way they can do it. It's almost like a patriotism toward the city.