The heart is a labyrinth of forgotten desires.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

每个实验都是向自然提出的一个问题，每个结果都是自然的回答。

在科学中最令人兴奋的短语，预示着新发现的，不是“我找到了！”而是“这有点奇怪……”

简帛研究为我们打开了了解古代中国思想世界的窗口。

Genius without discipline is like a ship without a rudder.