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G.H. Hardy Quote: “Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: “Yes, up to isomorphism”.”

51. “Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: “Yes, up to isomorphism”.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful.”

52. “The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets.”

53. “Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “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 harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

54. “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 harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty.”

55. “I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.”

56. “317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “A science or an art may be said to be “useful” if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.”

57. “A science or an art may be said to be “useful” if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.”

58. “No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.”

59. “I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “I still say to myself when I am depressed, and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people, ‘Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with both Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.”

60. “I still say to myself when I am depressed, and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people, ‘Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with both Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”

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

G.H. Hardy Quote: “Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician’s fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts.”

62. “Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician’s fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.”

63. “Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful – ‘important’ if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and ‘serious’ expresses what I mean much better.”

64. “The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful – ‘important’ if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and ‘serious’ expresses what I mean much better.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “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.”

65. “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 Quote: “The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics.”

66. “The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “We must guard against a fallacy common among apologists of science, the fallacy of supposing that the men whose work most benefits humanity are thinking much of that while they do it, that physiologists, for example, have particularly noble souls.”

67. “We must guard against a fallacy common among apologists of science, the fallacy of supposing that the men whose work most benefits humanity are thinking much of that while they do it, that physiologists, for example, have particularly noble souls.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our “creations,” are simply our notes of our observations. This view has been held, in one form or another, by many philosophers of high reputation from Plato onwards, and I shall use the language which is natural to a man who holds it.”

69. “I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our “creations,” are simply our notes of our observations. This view has been held, in one form or another, by many philosophers of high reputation from Plato onwards, and I shall use the language which is natural to a man who holds it.”

G.H. Hardy Quote: “The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.”

70. “The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.”

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