"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
世界上充满了神奇的事物,耐心地等待着我们的感官变得更加敏锐。
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
Mathematics is not a spectator sport.
世界是如此不可预测。事情突然发生,出乎意料。我们想要感觉到我们能够控制自己的存在。在某些方面我们是,在某些方面我们不是。我们被偶然和巧合的力量所支配。
书籍是人类灵魂的镜子,它们反映出我们最深层的恐惧和希望。
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."