The novel is a form of exploration, a way of understanding the world and our place in it.

我不想只在球场上成为冠军，我想在生活中也成为冠军。

So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

The mathematics of the universe is written in the language of geometry.