“[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.”
— G.H. Hardy
“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”
— G.H. Hardy
“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
“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”
— G.H. Hardy
“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.”
— G.H. Hardy
“Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.”
— G.H. Hardy