We must guard against a fallacy common among apologists of science, the fallacy of supposing that the men whose work most benefits humanity are thinking much of that while they do it. — G. H. Hardy

We must guard against a fallacy common among apologists of science, the fallacy of supposing that the men whose work most benefits humanity are thinking much of that while they do it.

— G. H. Hardy “A Mathematician’s Apology” (1940). Cambridge University Press. p.78

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