The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

量子理论的本质是否认用经典术语完整描述原子现象的可能性。

Innovation is not going from 1 to N, but from 0 to 1.

The method of psychology must be as exact as that of the physical sciences.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.

Collaboration across borders and disciplines is the only way to tackle global health challenges.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

你不必总是知道你要去哪里，只要你继续前进。