The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

"The most important thing is to stay curious, to keep learning, to keep growing."

谦逊是科学家所能拥有的最大美德。

The real tragedy of the poor is that they can do nothing but wait for the rich to give them something.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

If you're not failing occasionally, you're not pushing the boundaries enough.

The balance of marine ecosystems is our shared responsibility. Destroying it means destroying our own future.

I don’t want to be a star. I want to be a human.