G. H. Hardy Quotes

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

All science requires mathematics.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.