"Writing is a way of making sense of the world, even when it doesn't make sense."
写作是一种理解世界的方式,即使世界本身没有意义。
Pain research is not just about alleviating suffering; it's about understanding a fundamental aspect of human biology.
Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.