My research has broadly inspired through these two quotes in addition to the quotes of Prof. S Chandrashekhar written on my homepage

"The study of fluids is all about the art of approximation. The equations of fluid mechanics, simple as they are, cannot be solved in full generality and we will make progress only by simplifying. The skill is in learning what to keep and what to ignore. And we start by ignoring the existence of atoms..."

-From the lecture notes of Prof. David Tong

"I like to understand mathematics and to clarify it for myself and for the world, more even than to discover it. The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me; both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredible enhanced vision, and the ecstacy and euphoria of released tension.."

-P Halmos