Day 51

Hardy, G.H.

… I will state my own position dogmatically in order to avoid minor misapprehensions. 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 our notes of our observations.

A Mathematicians Apology (Cambridge University Press; 149, reprinted 1967) p. 123.