Collaboration in science bridges gaps between what we know and what we can discover.

The best traders are those who can control their emotions.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

We are all descendants of successful ancestors; failure left no progeny.

Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic. In other words -- what is a meritocratic society? A meritocratic society is one in which, if you've got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top, nothing should hold you back. It's a beautiful idea.