There are times when I feel like I'm in a big forest and don't know where I'm going. But then somehow I come to the top of a hill and can see everything more clearly. When that happens, it's really exciting.

— Maryam Mirzakhani, PopSci's Fourth Annual Brilliant 10 (2005)

Source: https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-07/popscis-fourth-annual-brilliant-10#page-7

From PopSci's Fourth Annual Brilliant 10 feature (2005).

Topics: learning, mathematics