Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

让中国人吃饱饭是我们这代科学家的使命。

弦理论的数学美感表明它必须是自然界终极描述的一部分。

我不是为观众画画，我是为我自己画画。

If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.

The poor are often forced to make choices that no one should have to make.

南怀瑾：色一个字，不单是代表五蕴，连外面宇宙万有形形色色都包在内。……这内外两种色，都是因缘生，无自性，无实体，不可得，根本是性空。现下虽是幻有，毕竟不可得的，所以即色即空，并不是色之外另有个空。