What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.