"I'm not trying to fool anyone into thinking it's a photograph. I'm trying to make a painting that has its own reality."

The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose your own thoughts.

谦逊是科学家所能拥有的最大美德。

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

The conjectures of the Langlands program are not merely problems to be solved but a vision of how mathematics should be.