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82ccab0 "One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that "the Bradman class" denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein." shakespeare literature politics science bradman-class count-lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy g-h-hardy godfrey-hardy godfrey-harold-hardy lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy vladimir-ilyich-lenin leo-tolstoy vladimir-lenin einstein tolstoy archimedes cambridge lenin isaac-newton newton william-shakespeare C.P. Snow