"The expert in anything was once a beginner." - Helen Hayes

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." - G.H.Hardy

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G.H.Hardy

"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." - G.H.Hardy