Beauty is the only thing that can save us, but it is also the most fragile.

在追求理解的过程中，失败不是成功的对立面；它是通向成功的垫脚石。

科学与社会的对话必须持续进行。

最大的恶和最严重的罪行是贫穷。

We must build a world in which there shall be no economic domination.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

I don't want to be a king; I want to be a god.