很大程度上运气是我有天才名誉的原因。在早上我不会走进办公室说“今天我聪明吗?,而是说,“今天我幸运吗?——数学家相对于其他人来说最大的优势是,数学家深刻理解“概率。
创新是将变化视为机会而非威胁的能力。
在认识到热是运动的一种形式后,没有人会怀疑热可以转化为机械效应。
在一个普遍欺骗的时代,说出真相就是一种革命行为。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
The thing you’re most afraid to write, that’s what you should write.
The seeds of tomorrow are planted in the research of today.