很大程度上运气是我有天才名誉的原因。在早上我不会走进办公室说“今天我聪明吗?,而是说,“今天我幸运吗?——数学家相对于其他人来说最大的优势是,数学家深刻理解“概率。
Luck, is largely responsible for my reputation for genius. I don’t walk into the office in the morning and say, ‘Am I smart today?’ I walk in and wonder, ‘Am I lucky today?’
The truth is, we all have our own versions of reality, and sometimes those versions don't align with the facts.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.