For almost all its history, the study of modular arithmetic has been driven purely by its inherent beauty and by human curiosity.
A view had gained ground among the reform-minded in Iran that a literate public was the key to a prosperous country, and that learning and the printed word could bring about progress.
Negin Nabavi in The Birth of Newspaper Culture in Nineteenth-Century Iran
Women legally take part in the political game, but they are still considered illegitimate by their male colleagues, whose power position they challenge.
Great scientists start new fields of science by making leaps in the dark. Nature decides which of the leaps is right and which is wrong.
Professor Freeman Dyson in Unfashionable Pursuits, Leaps in the Dark, and Detecting Gravitational Waves
