棋盘是世界;棋子是宇宙万象;棋局规则便是我们所谓的自然法则。
The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.  
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings.
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."