The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

子夏说：“重贤轻色、尽心孝顺父母、尽力献身国家、交朋友言而有信的人，即使没有高等学历，我也认为他已经受到了良好的教育。”

天赋是上帝赐予的，要谦卑；名声是别人给的，要感恩；自负是自己给的，要小心。

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

随着我们深入量子世界，我们发现拓扑不仅仅是数学上的好奇，而是自然界的一个基本方面。

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.