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>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. - G. H. Hardy,
by a_bonobo 11y ago
>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.
- G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
(Yet here we are, applying the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in biology, and the Hardy–Ramanujan asymptotic formula in physics)