The truth about the world, he said, 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.
他说，关于世界的真相是，任何事情都是可能的。如果你不是从出生就看到了这一切，从而失去了它的陌生感，它对你来说就会显得像是一个魔术表演中的帽子戏法，一个发烧的梦，一个充满了既没有类比也没有先例的幻象的恍惚，一个巡回的嘉年华，一个在许多泥泞的田野中多次投掷后最终目的地无法言说且灾难性超出想象的迁徙帐篷表演。
生命中最伟大的事情是保持心灵年轻。
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
"Writing is a matter of patience and stubbornness, not talent."
Every experiment, even the ones that fail, teaches you something valuable.
科学的进步不是通过事实的积累，而是通过发现它们之间的新关系。