自守形式的研究证明了对称性在数学中的力量。

成功不是靠运气，而是靠努力、决心和从失败中学习。

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.

最危险的谎言是我们对自己说的谎言。

Literature is analysis after the event.

Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

研究古DNA如同打开通向过去的窗户。

I don’t like to repeat myself. I like to be challenged and to try new things.