“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxf...” — G. H. Hardy Quote

“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”

“I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.”

“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.”

“After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.”

“I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.”