数学是过去与现在之间的对话。

量子计算的未来不仅仅在于更快的计算，而在于对现实结构的更深入理解。

Leadership is about inspiring others to see the potential within themselves.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

2000年10月29日，在南京大学捐资设立杨振宁奖学金时，杨振宁表示，虽然我父亲是大学教授，但因为通货膨胀，家里很穷，生活很艰苦，是奖学金帮我度过了难关。近几年多次在大陆访问，看到不少青年学生因家境困难而影响学业，感到很伤心，所以就有了这么个想法。杨振宁说

上下级之间若真诚相通，则即使在暗处也相互信任无疑；若真诚不通，则即使亲近也充满怀疑不信。