我经历了生活中的许多坎坷，但我依然在这里

We are all bound by the social contract to obey the laws， but we also have the right to participate in making those laws.

The rise of China and the resurgence of Russia have challenged the idea that liberal democracy is the only viable form of government.

"The beauty of science lies in its ability to transform the abstract into the tangible."

Transparency builds trust, and trust builds lasting relationships.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

我们要做的是让技术服务于人，而不是人服务于技术。

We must listen to the science if we want our oceans to thrive.