"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."

死者是最执着的历史学家。

There is no such thing as an inheritance of capacity, talent, temperament, mental constitution and characteristics.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."

唯一能拯救世界的是重新获得对世界的意识。

The joy of discovery is not in the recognition but in the knowledge that you’ve contributed something meaningful.

真正的挑战不仅仅是构建气候模型，而是解读它们告诉我们的信息。

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.