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 …

- G. H. Hardy

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 va…

- G. H. Hardy

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

- G. H. Hardy

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

- G. H. Hardy

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

- G. H. Hardy

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

- 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

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

- G. H. Hardy

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 har…

- G. H. Hardy