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I don’t think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don’t give mathematics a real chance.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

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It's not only the question, but the way you try to solve it.

I think it's rarely about what you actually learn in class it's mostly about things that you stay motivated to go and continue to do on your own."

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.

I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields—it's very refreshing. There are lots of tools, and you don't know which one would work. It's about being optimistic and trying to connect things.

There are times when I feel like I'm in a big forest and don't know where I'm going. But then somehow I come to the top of a hill and can see everything more clearly. When that happens, it's really exciting.

PopSci's Fourth Annual Brilliant 10 (2005)

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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