All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
G. H. HardyAs history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
G. H. HardyGreek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
G. H. HardyWhen the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world."
G. H. Hardy