生活是与未来的一系列碰撞;它不是我们曾经是什么的总和,而是我们渴望成为什么的总和。
La vida es una serie de colisiones con el futuro; no es una suma de lo que hemos sido, sino de lo que anhelamos ser.
The greatest happiness of a teacher is to send groups of children to the other shore of their ideals.
个人的不是私人的;它是政治的。
我们生来都具备某种程度的天赋。如何利用它取决于我们自己。
The boundary between physics and mathematics is not as clear-cut as one might think.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.