你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。我们能够想方设法制造清洁能源，也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。这个月，有一个异常而不可避免的事情发生了——人类终于合成了生命。在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。我相信你们甚至会看到我们理解人类的大脑，儒勒·凡尔纳，马克·吐温，伽利略，牛顿——所有那些充满好奇之心的人都希望能够活到现在。作为文明人，我们会拥有如此之多的天赋，就像是坐在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·殊路》。至，最。璞，含有玉的石头或未经雕琢过的玉。最美的东西就是最本色自然的东西，是没有什么东西可以文饰它的。此言自然本色便是美，是道家崇尚自然的思想观点。
"Sometimes the greatest act of rebellion is simply to remember."
艺术可以是一种抵抗形式。
智者不会羞于求知，因为他知道，知识的海洋是无边无际的。
伟大不是环境的结果。事实证明，伟大在很大程度上是一种有意识的选择。
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.