Trust doesn’t mean that you trust that someone won’t screw up—it means you trust them even when they do screw up.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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
「人生就只活这么一次。」「错,我们一生只死一次,剩余的每天都在生活。」
避免错误的唯一方法就是没有新想法。
To live outside the law, you must be honest.