The causal framework is the foundation of scientific reasoning.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

The key to innovation in economics is to question conventional wisdom.

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

数学不是沿着一条清理得很好的高速公路小心行进，而是进入一个陌生的荒野的旅程，探险者常常会迷路。