Godfrey Harold Hardy Quotes & Sayings

Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power. — Henry Hallett Dale

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating ... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal. — Brand Blanshard