"If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average." M.H. Alderson
"There is no success without hardship." Sophocles
"Number rules the universe." The Pythagoreans
"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences, and arithmetic is the queen of
mathematics." Karl Friedrich Gauss
"Mathematics is the only infinite human activity." Paul Erdos
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." over the door of the famous
Academy in Athens founded by Plato
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac
Newton
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." Chinese Proverb
"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he
can do." John Stuart Mills
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people
who prepare for it today." Malcolm X