1. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. But the 1% of inspiration is the most important, even more important than the 99% of sweat.
2. The most wonderful thing we experience is mystery.
3. The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who look on with cold eyes and choose to remain silent.
4. Find something in the book you read that can lead you to the depths, and throw away everything else. That is to throw away everything that overburdens the mind and takes you away from the main point. . Only by giving up can you gain something, and only by traveling lightly can you advance at high speed.
5. Sometimes people get nothing despite all their efforts.
6. My current life is without animal fat, meat, or fish, but I feel good about it. It almost seems to me that humans are not born carnivores.
7. Logic will take you from A to B, imagination can take you anywhere.
8. Push your career, don’t let your career push you.
9. My faith involves a humble respect for the infinite wisdom that reveals itself through the details perceptible to our feeble minds.
10. The noble spirit is often ravaged by the mediocre world.
11. Science is a wonderful thing—if you don’t need to make a living from it.
12. A person’s most perfect and strongest emotions come from facing unsolvable mysteries.
13. There is an unknowable world that exists outside of us, and its existence does not depend on our subjective will as humans. Although it is a profound and eternal mystery, thankfully, we humans can at least partially access it through observation and thinking. This world is deeply charming, just like fighting for freedom and liberation, it attracts our gaze and deep thought.
14. People rarely praise other people’s intelligence unless they are your enemies.
15. Then I can only express my regret to my dear Lord. The theory of relativity is correct.
16. Scientists must grasp certain universal characteristics that can be expressed by precise formulas in the complex empirical facts, thereby exploring the universal principles of nature.
17. There are two ways of looking at life. One is that there are no miracles in life, and the other is that everything is a miracle.