G. H. Hardy Quotes
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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No one wants peace more than me.
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We have been swamped by a tsunami of new technologies, without pausing to consider whether they are good or bad, helpful or hurtful. Are they making us more thoughtful, more articulate, more loving?
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A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.
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I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
