No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

"I believe in the power of storytelling to change the world."

Every word in a novel is a step towards understanding the human condition.

Science is the art of asking the right questions.

——1896年，伦敦蒙难后许多人问孙：“我们看到你，你这位先生的革命事业不知道失败过多少次了，为什么还不丧气，总是这么热心呢？这是什么理由呢？”

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

I don’t believe in styles, I believe in coherence.

Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them.