Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world."

G. H. Hardy's Popular Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

- G. H. Hardy

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

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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

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