The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

我们今天的每一个决定都将在未来几十年影响海洋生态系统。

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I paid no attention to the territorial boundaries of academic disciplines and I just grabbed all the big ideas that I could.