The study of Shimura varieties is a testament to the power of geometric intuition.
强调战略思考比盲目行动更重要
The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."