The power of abstraction is that it allows us to reason about systems at a higher level, without getting bogged down in the details.

科学思想不像被分成越来越小的蛋糕，而像一棵不断分枝的树。

I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in classroom, which is natural.My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and self-control.

虚荣和傲慢是不同的东西，尽管这两个词经常被用作同义词。

The explanatory gap between physical processes and conscious experience remains as wide as ever.

Every quarry has a story written in layers of stone and generations of workers.

"The best stories are the ones that stay with you long after you've finished reading."