The most important political distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government.
历史学家的首要职责是忠于真相。
Science is not just about answering questions, but also about discovering new questions to ask.
Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with， and learn from， people smarter than yourself. Even better， find smart people who will disagree with you.
对我而言，你只是一个小男孩，和其他成千上万的小男孩没有什么不同。我不需要你。你也不需要我。对你而言，我也和其它成千上万的狐狸并没有差别。但是，假如你驯服了我，我们就彼此需要了。对我而言，你就是举世无双的；对你而言，我也是独一无二的……
The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions” that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.