小说应该既是一面镜子，也是一扇窗户。
A novel should be both a mirror and a window.
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
数学不是关于数字、方程、计算或算法的：它是关于理解的。
Economic inequality is not just a moral issue; it’s an economic one as well.
科学中的每一个发现都是更接近理解我们在宇宙中的位置的一步。
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
