小说的最终考验是你是否如此关心这些人以至于你想知道他们接下来会发生什么。
You have to be run by missionaries, not mercenaries.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
The past whispers to us through our genes.