The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

科学不仅仅是事实的集合；它是一种思维方式，一种以对人类易错性的深刻理解来怀疑地审视宇宙的方式。

除非你先是一个读者，否则你不可能成为一个作家。

我记得，他总是反抗。他反抗是因为他知道如果他不反抗，下次就更不会反抗了。

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

The photograph is the most perfect picture.