我们可以从书店中感受到这些问题所造成的后果，当你像我一样到大型书店里的，自我帮助书籍类。如果你分析现在出版的这些自我帮助类书籍，它们基本上分成两种，第一种告诉你“你做得到！你能成功！没有不可能！”另外一种则教导你如何处理，我们婉转地称呼为“缺乏自信”，或是直接了当地称为“自我感觉极差”。
The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."
“但是"之前的话都是废话。
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Innovation in science often comes from looking at old problems in new ways.
In the quest to understand quantum gravity, we are like children playing on the shore of a vast ocean, occasionally finding a smooth pebble or a pretty shell, while the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered before us.
释义：人生如同一盘棋，在纷繁复杂的世事中，胜负尚未决定，双方都在角力。
The key to success is to focus on the long term and not get distracted by short-term fluctuations.