"Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how."

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Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.47, Cambridge University Press

G. H. Hardy

#Knowledge Quotes #Science Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.”

Source : Song: You and I, Album: Be OK, 2008
“American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.”
“[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.”
“I am prepared to try anything once.”
“Once youâ€™ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form thatâ€™s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I donâ€™t think they are. At least thatâ€™s how itâ€™s worked out in my life. And I know Iâ€™m not the only one.”
“I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.”
“...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics....”
“Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.”

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