The test of good architecture is how it makes you feel when you're in it.

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

当我们发现，这个有形世界的结构竟然与纯由数理逻辑与形上之美所导出的概念紧密相符，这难道不是最令我们觉得奥妙与敬畏的吗？

"Poetry is the art of making the invisible visible."

最好的数学是永恒的。

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.