G. H. Hardy Quotes About Reality

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  • I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

    Lying   Believe   Science  
    G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press
  • The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

  • 317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

    Reality   Thinking   Mind  
    G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.130, Cambridge University Press
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