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

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

G. H. Hardy
Appreciation, Mind, Criticism
G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

G. H. Hardy
Appreciation, Math, Names

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

G. H. Hardy
Appreciation, Art, Writing
G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

G. H. Hardy
Appreciation, Math, People
G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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