数学家的模式,就像画家或诗人的模式一样,必须是美丽的;思想,就像颜色或文字一样,必须以和谐的方式结合在一起。
The night is a great poem, and the stars are its verses.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
The true power of microfinance is making the poor believe in their own potential.