吾尝终日不食,终夜不寝,以思,无益,不如学也。
我曾经整天不吃饭,整夜不睡觉,去苦苦思索,结果没有益处,还不如去学习。
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
"Mathematics is the science of patterns, and we study them to learn how to think logically, critically, and creatively."