The art of discovery is not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

在上海法租界莫利爱路二十九号住宅与李宗黄谈话，1918年7月

如果你想赢得诺贝尔奖，就不应该想着赢得诺贝尔奖。

一个人如果不讲信用，不知道他怎么能立身处世？就像牛车没有了輗，马车上没有了軏，还靠什么行走呢？

"We are all stories in the end."

The mind is a biological problem-solving device.

登山不因为艰难险峻就停止攀登，那么最终必定能登上峻岭。

避免审判的最佳方式就是为之做好准备。

I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.