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The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

G. H. Hardy
Science, Occupation, Study
G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

G. H. Hardy
Science, Study, Conflict
G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

G. H. Hardy
Triumph, May, Study

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