Math is like an upside-down pyramid: the tip must be strong and steady,

and if you want to build you have to do it in all directions,

otherwise the pyramid falls.

- Edoardo Sernesi

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

- Alfréd Rényi

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

- John von Neumann

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

- Sofia Kovalevskaya

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else.

The second way is to be stupider than everybody else, but persistent.

- Raoul Bott