“When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.”

The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall (July 2006)

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American theoretical physicist and an expert on particle ph… 1962

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Que tuve todo lo sé, no por lo que tuve. Lo sé porque después no tuve más.
Voces (1943)

“I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

from "Oxford Road Show", BBC2 (March 1985)
In interviews etc., About himself and his work

“And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Waiting on God (1950), Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God

“When I was young, I was very energetic and strong – just too hyperactive. So when I went to the boxing club, everything seemed normal to me. I enjoyed it, I liked punching things, hitting the boxing bag, fighting people in the boxing ring and in school I was naughty as well; but when I started boxing, I totally changed everything – you know, my whole life changed, I was good, I didn’t misbehave, I was always behaving in school. The teacher was happy with my behaviour.”

Amir Khan (boxer) (1986) British boxer

Boxing as a schoolkid during childhood, Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVM9mW7gglI&feature=channel (Aik Din Geo Kay Sath), GEO News. (September 2009)