G. H. Hardy Quotes

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

Intelligence, Time, Enough

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy

Made, Ideas, Poet

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy

Men, Young, Old

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.
G. H. Hardy

Through, Whole, Useful

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
G. H. Hardy

Die, Ideas, Forgotten

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy

Art, Creative, Interested

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
G. H. Hardy

Work, Men, Whole

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 7, 1877

Died: December 1, 1947

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