G. H. Hardy Quotations

We were lucky. Five more minutes and there would have been a lot of people killed or hurt really bad.

You've still got to play. I told 'em at halftime if I see somebody out there not playing hard, they won't be out there for long.

I started making calls a week after Katrina. The captains all said the same thing: you can take away our homes, but you can't take away our Mardi Gras.

The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man.

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).