Mathematics is an art, and as an artist, you have to be honest with yourself.
数学是一门艺术,作为艺术家,你必须对自己诚实。
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
心灵不是感官信息的被动接受者,而是感知过程中的积极参与者。
我相信讲故事的力量可以改变人心。
I am not a hero of mathematics. I'm not even that successful; that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me.
They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they'd hang head down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along. But no—with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider.