51 Quotes by Weike Wang

He was a fast and proficient chemist and so was I. The shrink says she doesn't question that. But what every scientist knows—you can't just be proficient; you have to have insight.

The baby has become sentient. When we walk, she screams across the street at other babies, baby expletives, we think. Something along the lines of God-damn it other baby, don't try to out-cute me. To make matters worse, she is very cute, so we have a hard time correcting her.

One thing he says: If you could be an emotion, it would be spite.One thing I say: If you could be an animal, it would be a sloth.But I only say that out of spite.

What are you going to do? she asks. Not dwell. Move forward. What are you really going to do? Stare at spoons.

The mark of a poor comedian is not making the other person laugh. The mark of a worse comedian is asking if the person got it.

Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.

The next day, I get a call from this student's mother.My daughter has said nothing about the GRE. All she ever talks about is color. Is color on the GRE?No, It's not. But it should be.What are you really teaching her?How to make sense of sunsets.

Don’t just break it off for the sake of it. Don’t do something drastic just to prove a point.

In the mind of a scientist, beauty is simplicity. The most elegant experiment is the one that takes no time to set up and gives the answer to every question.