264 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

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    The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

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    Once the racing season starts, I do have plans to help Mark. But I think I'm more excited about things like having February vacation back.

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    The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

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    For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

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    Despite the lack of manpower on the job, they feel that they've made some significant efforts in terms of working overtime and weekends to recover the schedule.

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    Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

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    [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

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