The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.

生命最大的用途是将它用于比生命更长久的事物上。

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

The dead have left us clues in their DNA.

I don’t let other people define who I am.

"我写作是为了逃离镜子，但最终总是找到它。"

数学中的每个问题都是一个等待解决的谜题，而乐趣就在于解决的过程。

姚明的英语越来越好，一位记者不识时务的问道：“你（姚明）现在是不是觉得英文比中文说的更加流利？”姚明马上对着身边的翻译科林说道