The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The wild is a place of beauty and danger. To survive, you have to respect both.

I like to think of architecture as a frame for life.

Literature is a force that can change the world.

我不是一个放弃自己力量的人。

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

In chemistry, as in life, sometimes you need to take a step back to see the bigger picture.