The great challenge of our time is to build institutions that can manage the complexity of modern societies.
Fear is just a feeling. Don’t let it stop you.
The beauty of topological insulators lies in their robustness; their surface states are protected by symmetry and topology, making them immune to certain types of disorder.
The writer's secret is not inspiration—for it is never clear where it comes from—but stubbornness, endurance.
The truth about the world 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.
The only thing I can do is to be honest about my uncertainty.