Maider

“The solution to a math problem is not a number: it's an argument, a proof. We're trying to create these little poems of pure reason. Of course, like any other form of poetry, we want our work to be beautiful as well as meaningful. Mathematics is the art of explanation, and consequently, it is difficult, frustrating, and deeply satisfying.”
― Paul Lockhart, Measurement

“When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.”
― Edith Wharton, The Children

“If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness,
Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“It is an aesthetic principle almost universally acknowledged among mathematicians that the best way to solve a problem is to find an ingenious way not to have to solve it at all.”
― Paul Lockhart, Measurement