"The thing with mathematics is we keep thinking about how things work. And once you figure it out, you then see other things, connections and so on. And two weeks later it's so obvious that you could kick yourself for not having thought of it sooner. The high doesn't last! So you have to enjoy it as long as it does last."
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Ingrid Daubechies, L'Oréal-UNESCO Laureate for North America interview (2019)
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