朗兰兹纲领不仅仅是一组猜想，而是一种思考数学的方式。

"Illustrations are not just pictures; they are the soul of the story."

事实上，自然科学长期以来只是大脑和想象力的产物：现在是时候回归到对物质和显而易见事物的朴素而健全的观察上了。

To be is to do.

——〈在广州岭南学堂的演说〉，1912年5月7日

理解RNA干扰的机制是一段由好奇心驱动的研究之旅，它以其复杂性和优雅性继续让我们感到惊讶。

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.

努力和奉献是这个行业长寿的关键。