建筑是一种象征，建造行为也是如此。建筑不仅仅是结构；它们是人类愿望的体现。

Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of understanding it and making it understandable to others.

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

Never underestimate the power of a small team with a big vision.

Every mathematical problem has a solution, but not every solution is immediately apparent.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.