在化学中，就像在生活中一样，最具变革性的反应往往需要耐心和精确的条件。

我们持续专注于创新。

作家的任务是见证。

即使没有其他人相信你，也要相信自己，因为那是最重要的时刻。

I don't care what people say about me. I know who I am.

——又一个经典的比方

最好的领导者是那些倾听多于说话的人。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

知识的最大敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。