I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

任何认真从事任何科学工作的人都会意识到，在科学殿堂的大门上方写着这样的文字：你必须有信仰。

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

科学方法是统一且不可分割的，科学方法既适用于物理问题，也适用于社会问题。

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.

作家的职责是关注世界。

每一本书都是一个新的世界，等待着读者去探索。