People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
人们是好奇的。少数人是。他们会被驱使去发现事物，即使是微不足道的事情。他们会把东西拼凑起来，尽管他们可能一直都知道自己可能是错的。你看到他们带着笔记本四处走动，刮掉墓碑上的泥土，阅读微缩胶片，只是希望能看到时间的涓涓细流，建立联系，从垃圾中拯救一件事物。
The theory of reductive groups is the backbone of the Langlands program.
对早期宇宙的研究不仅仅是关于理解过去，也是关于揭示支配所有现实的基本法则。
爱不是一种感觉，史蒂文斯先生。爱是一个决定。
写作的艺术是发现自我的艺术。
The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding the present.