"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

"The unexamined life is not worth living" -Socrates

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein

"Great minds discuss Ideas, Average minds discuss Events, small minds discuss people" - Eleanor Williams

"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.” - Hillel, 1st Century B.C. sage

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein

Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences. ... Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worse, men who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy. -Roger Bacon (ca. 1214- ca. 1294), Opus Majus

Doing mathematics is like exploring a dark mansion: "You enter the first room of the mansion and its completely dark. You stumble around bumping into the furniture but gradually you learn where each piece of furniture is. Finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly its all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were. Then you move into the next room and spend another six months in the dark. So each of these breakthroughs, while sometimes theyre momentary, sometimes over a period of a day or two, they are the culmination of, and couldnt exist without, the many months of stumbling around in the dark that precede them." -Andrew Wiles