"I consider myself a kind of scientific explorer, venturing into uncharted territory."

"The more I study, the more I feel my mind is enlarged and strengthened."

"I believe myself to be a rare combination of the imaginative faculty and the mathematical faculty, which is rare, and therefore valuable."

"The science of operations, as derived from mathematics, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value."

"I believe that science and art are intimately connected, and that both are essential for human progress."