人一旦成名，就一个朋友也没有了，这是一个很大的不幸。而尤其不幸的是自称为朋友的人也都离你而去。

小说是唯一能够完全呈现人类复杂性的艺术形式。

The only real knowledge is self-knowledge.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

The beauty of CRISPR lies in its simplicity and precision.

The essence of cryptography is to allow communication in the presence of adversaries.