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.More Godfry Harold Hardy quotes [08/11/2011 07:08:15]

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.More Godfry Harold Hardy quotes [08/11/2011 07:08:47]

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.More Godfry Harold Hardy quotes [08/11/2011 07:08:26]

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.More Godfry Harold Hardy quotes [08/11/2011 07:08:17]

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.More Godfry Harold Hardy quotes [08/11/2011 07:08:09]