The pursuit of science is more than the pursuit of understanding. It is the pursuit of a kind of wisdom that comes from knowing how much we do not know.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

真正的全球化不是关于在哪里生产，而是关于在哪里思考。

独立是国家的灵魂。

寻求统一的物理理论是我们时代最伟大的智力冒险之一。

每一本书都是一次旅程，每一次旅程都会改变你。

我不确定自己是否相信上帝，但我相信艺术。

在人类社会的初期，每个人都是自私自利的。

Every challenge is an opportunity in disguise.