Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.
其他人真的像她一樣活著嗎?……如果答案是肯定的,那么這個世界,這個社會世界,就顯得難以承受地復雜:二十億人的聲音,每個人的思想都同樣重要,每個人對生命的追求都極為強烈,每個人都認為自己獨一無二,而實際上沒有人是獨一無二的。在這樣的世界里,人會被自己的渺小感淹沒。
自然科學是一種通過描述自然來理解自然的嘗試。
沙漠教會你,空虛可以充滿意義,只要你學會閱讀寂靜。
我不認為自己是個超級巨星,我只是一個熱愛網(wǎng)球的普通人。