We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
— John F. Kennedy
Nature is written in mathematical language.
— Galileo GalileiWhat is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.
— Shakuntala DeviWhy do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
— Shakuntala DeviIf people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
— John von NeumannThere are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.
— Raoul Bott