264 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

There ain't no way that they're 17 points better than us. We took the game from ourselves. We probably gave them 35 points today.

There's a lot of excitement. A lot of kids didn't get a lot of minutes, but it was a total team effort. They were pulling for one another. There's not a lot of size, but these guys don't quit.

If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that it would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.

There must be a high effort on the patient's part. They must really want to communicate again and be understood. It's not easy and there's a lot of repetition.

We had been selling propeller hats as a way for students to show their support for wind power. Many of the school's administrators even bought hats for friends and family, giving us a chance to talk to them about our efforts.

[P]ure 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.

They're important in terms of competitiveness and prestige for the program ... and that helps recruit the top athletes and coaches.

Many who have experienced homelessness for a long time become numb. They feel they are separated from society, and lack the human touch. They don't get their hands shook, they don't get hugs, they are detached from society and it is not a positive world.