If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
G. H. HardyA personโs first duty, a young personโs at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.
G. H. HardyA mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.
G. H. Hardy