社会学的想象力使拥有者能够根据其对各种个人的内心生活和外部职业生涯的意义来理解更大的历史场景。

The key to nudge is to make it easy for people to make better choices.

The best stories are those that cannot be summarized.

The causal perspective is the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe.

在我看来，现在有许多人—甚至包括科学家—似乎都只是见树不见林。关于历史与哲学背景的知识，可以提供给那些大部份正受到当代偏颇观念所左右的科学家们一种不随波逐流的独立性。这种由哲学的洞察力所创造的独立性，依我来看，正是一个工匠或专家，与一个真正的真理追寻者之间，最大的区别。

I don't rap for dead presidents. I'd rather see the president dead.

我相信个人的就是普遍的。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

我不相信纯粹的艺术。