G. H. Hardy Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.

  G. H. Hardy

  Apology, Science, Needs

• The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Occupation, Study

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

• In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Study, Conflict

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

  G. H. Hardy

  Triumph, May, Study

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