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There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else _ but persistent.
Raoul Bott
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There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else _ but persistent.

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