"I decided to give one of these rods a huge stretch, fast, a jerk... and it stretched 1000%." - Wilbert L. Gore, inventor of Gore-Tex.

“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” - Benoit Mandelbrot, in his introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 

"云不是球体，山不是圆锥体，海岸线不是圆，树皮不是光滑的，闪电传播的路径也不是直线。"

- 曼德博，《大自然的分形几何》绪论

I believe these words are equally important in scientific research.

Covid-19 vs. romance, social distancing vs. human affection, ordinary people in a once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic... everything is put in such high contrast.