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Quote from Godfrey Harold Hardy

I have never done anything "useful".  No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.  I have helped to train other mathematicians, but mathematicians of the same kind as myself, and their work has been, so far at any rate as I have helped them to it, as useless as my own.  Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil;  and outside of mathematics it is trivial anyhow.

Godfrey Harold Hardy


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