"If we're the only conscious life in the universe, it's a terrible waste of space." —— 如果在宇宙中我们是唯一的智慧生命,那这宇宙未免太浪费空间了。
"Mathematics is the language that we humans are capable of using in describing the universe. It may have little to do with the universe, but in terms of our capacity, it's the lens through which we are able to view the universe with the precision that no other human language allows." —— 数学是我们人类能够用来描述宇宙的语言。它可能与宇宙本身关系不大,但就我们的能力而言,它是唯一能让我们以其他人类语言无法企及的精度来观察宇宙的透镜。
"I'm convinced that this second mode of creativity is in fact that suffering is a kind of crucible that triggers it." —— 我确信,这第二种创造力模式实际上是由苦难这个熔炉所激发的。
"The craziest thing about these to me is that when you look at physics and try to write equations where information gets transmitted reliably if you're in one of these super symmetrical systems with this extra symmetry that doesn't happen unless there's an error correcting code present." —— 对我来说最疯狂的是,当你在超对称系统中试图写出能可靠传输信息的方程时,如果没有纠错码的存在,这种可靠传输就不会发生。