真正的纽约人暗中相信，生活在其他地方的人在某种意义上一定是在开玩笑。

痛苦是一种果实，上帝不会让它生长在无法承受的脆弱枝干上。

凡是言论好行动，有利于上天鬼神与百姓的就做，凡是言论好行动，有害于上天鬼神与百姓的就舍弃。 

心灵是解释行为时不必要的建构。

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.