Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
数学不是一门演绎科学——那是陈词滥调。当你试图证明一个定理时，你不仅仅是列出假设然后开始推理。你所做的是反复试验、实验和猜测。
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
Praise shames me， for I secretly beg for it。
Overfishing is a failure of management, not a failure of the ocean.
If you’re going to talk the talk, you’ve got to walk the walk.
释义：正直仁信，原则处世，宏大包容，依此处世，不用学习世俗的那一套也不会不利。此句强调自然的品质，反对虚伪骄饰。
三种激情，简单但无比强烈，支配着我的生活：对爱的渴望，对知识的追求，以及对人类苦难的无法忍受的怜悯。