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Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
G. H. Hardy
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G. H. Hardy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1877
Born: February 7
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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Godfrey Harold Hardy
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A science or an art may be said to be useful if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: Yes, up to isomorphism.
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