Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and deeper than our latest theory about it.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

建筑师必须是未来的守护者。