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.

In agriculture, data is important, but intuition—forged by experience—is irreplaceable.

作家的职责不是提供答案，而是提出能引发思考和反思的正确问题。

凡是天下的祸患，掠夺与怨恨，之所以能出现，原因就在于人们不相爱。因此，仁义的人认为这是不对的。 

Our descendants will achieve things that will amaze us， yet a portion of what they will create could have been made with today’s materials and tools if we had had the imagination. Think bigger.