The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.