世界上充满了自童年以来从未以开放的心态面对开放之门的人。

I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.

真相常常比小说更离奇，但小说是我们找到真相的地方。

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

科学的精确性既需要严谨，也需要创造力。