Something Of Value

The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this:  that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more;  and that these somethings have a value which differs, in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.
—    G. H. Hardy
From his book:  “A Mathematician’s Apology“
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