G. H. Hardy Quotes
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
