To read is to travel without moving; to write is to move without traveling.
阅读是不动的旅行，写作是不旅行的移动。
生活模仿艺术远多于艺术模仿生活。
宇宙是能量和物质的交响曲，在最大的尺度上演奏。
Nature speaks to us through patterns, even when those patterns are hidden beneath apparent randomness.
我没有任何特别的秘诀（用于开发新的证明）……这就是为什么做研究既具有挑战性又具有吸引力的原因。这就像在丛林中迷路，试图利用你能收集到的所有知识来想出一些新的技巧，并且如果运气好的话，你可能会找到出路。
I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.
那些无法掌控主导他们生活的故事的人，无法重述、重新思考、解构、嘲笑并随着变化而改变它的人，真正是无力的，因为他们无法思考新的思想。
我们根据世界对生存的效用性来感知它。