To teach mathematics is to inspire the next generation of thinkers and problem solvers.

The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

My work is a form of archaeology, digging up forgotten stories.

写作是留下自己一部分的方式。

显微镜是永远不会说谎的沉默证人。

The highest endeavor of the mind， and the highest virtue， is to understand things by intuition.

世界上最强大的品牌是一个讲得好的故事。