G. H. Hardy Quote

"Imaginary" universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed "real" one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts.


A Mathematician's Apology, Section 26 (p. 135), Cambridge University Press. 1967


Imaginary universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed real one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's ...

Imaginary universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed real one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's ...

Imaginary universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed real one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's ...

Imaginary universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed real one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's ...