If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

无论我们承认与否，过去始终与我们同在。

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Science is not about finding absolute truths, but about constantly pushing the boundaries of our understanding.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

我对某物因为有人说它是艺术而成为艺术这个想法感兴趣。

仅以产量来衡量水产养殖的成功，就像用木材产量来评判森林一样。