Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

我们对宇宙了解得越多，就越意识到我们还有多少尚未发现的东西。

"To be a novelist is to be interested in what other people aren't interested in."

2000年10月29日，在南京大学捐资设立杨振宁奖学金时，杨振宁表示，虽然我父亲是大学教授，但因为通货膨胀，家里很穷，生活很艰苦，是奖学金帮我度过了难关。近几年多次在大陆访问，看到不少青年学生因家境困难而影响学业，感到很伤心，所以就有了这么个想法。杨振宁说

爱着的心才是真正活着的心。

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."