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Beauty Is The First Test; There Is No Permanent Place In The World For Ugly Mathematics.
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Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for
ugly mathematics.
-- G.H. Hardy
-- A Mathematician's Apology
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
-- Hardy, Godfrey H....
There is one comforting conclusion which is easy for a real mathematician.
Real mathematics has no effects on war. No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years....
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -- G. H. Hardy...
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure.
It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. -- G. K. Chesterso...
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
-- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)...
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. -- H. G. Well
INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights.
For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools....
Beauty Sleep. Well, in your case, Ugly Sleep.