Collaboration across borders is essential—fish don't recognize national boundaries, and neither should our efforts to protect them.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the ones that never heal and that define who we are.

天文学的历史是一部视野不断退却的历史。