And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

我是那种会让你想要改变生活的人。

要成为一个好的数学家，你需要既有直觉又有严谨。

科学中最令人兴奋的短语，预示着新发现的，不是“我找到了！”而是“这很有趣...”

记忆是个奇怪的东西。它不像我以为的那样运作。它不是可以重播的电影。它更像是一个你讲给自己的故事，而每次讲述这个故事都会改变。