So why do I talk about the benefits of failure？ Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was， and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
那么为什么我要谈论失败的好处呢？因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。
对心灵的研究必须摆脱一切先入为主的观念。
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.
所谓生活，一半是回忆，一半是继续。
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
——1905年8月13日在东京中国留学生欢迎大会上的演说
我相信书籍有改变生活的力量。
我不怕死，我怕不去尝试。
The beauty of topological insulators lies in their robustness; their surface states are protected against disorder and imperfections.