孩子们只有对自己发明的东西才有真正的理解,每当我们试图太快地教他们一些东西时,我们就阻止了他们自己去重新发明它。
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
写作是一种信仰行为——对语言、对读者、对自己的信仰。
The beauty of mathematics lies in its ability to describe the universe in the most abstract terms.
"A writer's duty is to tell the truth, no matter how painful."