2 Quotes by Hardy G H (Godfrey Harold)

[...]Pure mathematics, on the other hand, seems to me a rock on which all idealism founders: 317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are 39shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way.

a young person ought to be conceited, but he oughtn't to be imbecile