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“But what Ramanujan wanted more, more than anything, was simply the freedom to do as he wished, to be left alone to think, to dream, to create, to lose himself in a world of his own making.”
― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

“AMATEUR, n. A public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Don’t be so easy on yourself, it said.”
― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

“Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle