To do mathematics is to engage in an act of creation and discovery simultaneously.

没有冒险就没有文学。

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith.

To write is to leave a mark, to say: I was here, I existed.