G. H. Hardy Quotes

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Talent works, genius creates.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Art is science made clear.

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.