If a man will begin with certainties， he shall end in doubts； but if he will be content to begin with doubts， he shall end in certainties.
如果一个人从确定性开始，最终将陷入怀疑；但如果他愿意从怀疑开始，最终将得到确定性。
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
拓扑绝缘体的美在于它们的鲁棒性；它们的表面态受到对称性和拓扑的保护，使它们对某些类型的无序免疫。
The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.
The biggest enemy of technology is inertia.
成功的关键是不断推动自己。
预测未来的最好方法就是去创造它。
科学是个美妙的东西——如果无须靠它维生的话。
作家的任务是使熟悉的事物变得陌生，使陌生的事物变得熟悉。
The mind is the organ of adaptation par excellence.