The joy of discovery is what drives mathematicians forward.
发现的喜悦是推动数学家前进的动力。
It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it — who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet — that they can occasionally find one.
"We are all prisoners of our own memories, and the past is a jail from which we can never escape."