在没有生命力的帮助下合成尿素是一个极其重要的事实。

数学的美只向更有耐心的追随者展示。

The good life is not one immune to sadness, but one in which suffering contributes to our development.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

All art is immoral.

I don’t paint what I see. I paint what I feel.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.