G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy
Godfrey Harold "G. H." Hardy FRS was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth7 February 1877
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It is easy for us as students to leave on the light when we exit a room, or let the computer stay on stand-by rather than hibernate without thinking of the environmental or even economic consequences of our actions.
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It is easy for students to fall into the pattern of daily activities here. Whether it is the third floor of McCabe, Cornell basement or Hicks lounge, we spend an awful lot of time indoors, despite our beautiful campus.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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I think this is as much symbolic as anything. But it's still important, and I understand why Sen. Byrd would push for this.
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I will never see the turkeys run up and down the road again. I will never see my deer feed in my yard again. ... I will never be able to freely do what I wanted to do.
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Last year, he was coming in, and he really didn't know anybody. He was still learning names and their positions. This year, he knows what he wants. Either you're going to be able to do the job or you're not.
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We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.
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What we've had in the past is probably hypocritical. We've had a lot of creative financing that's made it difficult to assess really who's giving what, when and how.
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We were lucky. Five more minutes and there would have been a lot of people killed or hurt really bad.
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We were (24-4) last year, and people didn't expect us to be as good. But it is a credit to the six seniors in there who fought so hard.
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That's the way life is. It'll all be taken away from us in the end.
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The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man.
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.
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All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.