What did G. H. Hardy mean by: The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England Copy
+ Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, G. H. Hardy, Art, Justified, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
+ Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, G. H. Hardy, Bayonets, Bombs, Merciful, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
+ Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, G. H. Hardy, Cricket, Games, Sides, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
+ Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: “Yes, up to isomorphism”. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, G. H. Hardy, Believe, Mathematician, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
+ Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024February 5, 2024, G. H. Hardy, Knowledge, Science, Simplicity, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
+ Mathematics may, like poetry or music, “promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind.” Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, G. H. Hardy, Mind, Science, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
+ Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, G. H. Hardy, Apology, Beauty, Math, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
+ I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, G. H. Hardy, Past, Science, 0 - G. H. Hardy Mathematician · England
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science. - William Blake Poet and artist · England
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. Explain - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
