"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
— Douglas Adams

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."
— Augustine of Hippo

"It is impossible to be a mathematician
without being a poet in soul."
— Sophia Kovalevskaya

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx