Ioana

“There was nothing like the pain of loss to teach a person that time was an illusion.”
― Louisa Morgan, The Age of Witches

“Mathematical truth is immutable; it lies outside physical reality... This is our belief; this is our core motivating force.”
― Joel Spencer

“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But humanity certainly won't ever be able to find out everything in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. Numbers themselves are infinite. That's why mathematics is really my only interest.”
― Paul Erdős

“Daniel Bernoulli: "Then this distinguished scholar informed me that the celebrated mathematician, Cramer, had developed a theory on the same subject several years before I produced my paper. Indeed I have found his theory so similar to mine that it seems miraculous that we independently reached sch close agreement on this sort of subject.”
― Persi Diaconis, Ten Great Ideas about Chance