孔子说：“我不是天生就有学问的，只是个喜欢读书、勤奋敏捷地追求知识的人。”

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

重要的是不要停止提问。好奇心有其存在的理由。

Science is a powerful tool for humanity to understand and transform the world.

人们是好奇的。少数人是。他们会被驱使去发现事物，即使是微不足道的事情。他们会把东西拼凑起来，尽管他们可能一直都知道自己可能是错的。你看到他们带着笔记本四处走动，刮掉墓碑上的泥土，阅读微缩胶片，只是希望能看到时间的涓涓细流，建立联系，从垃圾中拯救一件事物。

我自豪地不读书。