The study of Shimura varieties is a meeting point of geometry, algebra, and number theory.

恐惧是想象的影子。

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood.

我不信上帝——就神学家使其概念可理解的程度而言，他们并未提供任何理由让我们认为有东西与之对应。

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

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.