Quotes from G. H. Hardy

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.