Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in…

I feel that I have to succeed to the highest level I can.

— Ron Rivera

When you feel that you will not succeed believe in the only one reason that you are a victor.

— Wamukota Steve

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

— Paul Lockhart

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality

— David Hilbert

The most rewarding part of my work is the "Aha" moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new - the feeling…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

— Doron Zeilberger

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

— Simeon Denis Poisson

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

— Stanislaw Ulam

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

— Bill Gates

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects…

— Philip J. Davis

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

— Aristotle

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann