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G. H. Hardy

" Good work is not done by 'humble' men "

Men , Done , Humble

related quotes

" I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations. "

Science , Believe , Lying

" The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. "

Beautiful , Beauty , Math

" It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. "

Knowledge , Men , Intelligent

" A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. "

Ideas , Math , Patterns

" A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. "

Ambition , Leaving

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

Purpose , Science

" Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. "

Mind , Appreciation , Criticism

" Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. "

Apology , Beauty , Math

" I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value. "

Differences , Creating

" 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. "

Sorrow , Be , Sorry , Would

" Good work is not done by 'humble' men "

Men , Done , Humble

" I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways." "

Numbers , Lying , Two

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