研究中最大的回报是知道你的工作可以拯救生命。

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The greatest predictor of a novel's quality is the novelist's willingness to confront the unlovely truth about himself or herself.

科学发现的真正本质不在于它提供的答案，而在于它提出的新问题。

真正的建筑从约束中产生。

法治不仅仅是一个法律概念，而是一种生活方式。

哲学的任务不是提供答案，而是对问题本身提出质疑。

The past whispers to us through our genes.

抽象的力量使数学能够超越物理现实的限制。