Most of the best work starts in hopeless muddle and floundering, sustained on the "smell" that something is there.


In: Bela Bollabas (ed.), Littlewood's Miscellany, Academic Life (p. 144)

John Edensor Littlewood Quotes

Most of the best work starts in hopeless muddle and floundering, sustained on the smell that something is there.

Most of the best work starts in hopeless muddle and floundering, sustained on the smell that something is there.

Most of the best work starts in hopeless muddle and floundering, sustained on the smell that something is there.

Most of the best work starts in hopeless muddle and floundering, sustained on the smell that something is there.