Ambition Quote by Robert Langlands

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I…

— Carl Sandburg

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career…

— G. H. Hardy

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know…

— Bertrand Russell

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

— Michael Marcus

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

— Noah Gray-Cabey

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the…

— Anonymous

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life,…

— Bertrand Russell

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss