- G.H. Hardy: There are no proofs nor underlying laws that can determine the outcome of matters of the heart. Of that I'm sure.
- S. Ramanujan: What you might see now as ordinary glass, I promise you will soon remain to see a diamond.
- S. Ramanujan: [gazing at the umbrella Hardy is carrying in full sunlight] Sir, do you know something I do not?
- G.H. Hardy: [sarcastically] Apparently not!
- [realizing the question referred to his umbrella]
- G.H. Hardy: Oh! God and I don't exactly see eye-to-eye. So if I prepare for rain, then it won't. So far, so good.
- [bellowing at the sky]
- G.H. Hardy: I'm Hardy. And I'm spending the afternoon in the Wren Library!
- [speaking again to Ramanujan]
- G.H. Hardy: Now we're sure to have sunshine. Hmph. You see, I am what you call an atheist.
- S. Ramanujan: No, sir. You believe in God. You just don't think He likes you.
- S. Ramanujan: There are patterns in everything. The color in light, the reflections in water... in math, these patterns reveal themselves in the most incredible form. It's quite beautiful.
- S. Ramanujan: Don't you see? An equation has no meaning to me... unless it expresses a thought of God.
- G.H. Hardy: From an Indian clerk ill-educated in Madras. I would very highly value any advice you give me. Yours truly, S. Ramanujan.
- S. Ramanujan: What do you see?
- Janaki: Sand.
- S. Ramanujan: Imagine if we could look so closely we could see each grain, each particle. You see there are patterns in everything.
- [first lines]
- G.H. Hardy: I have to form myself, as I have never really formed before, and try to help you to form some sort of reasoned estimate of the most romantic figure in the recent history of mathematics.
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