我们钦佩的人的品质,善良和慷慨、开放、诚实、理解和感受,是我们体系中失败的伴随物。而我们厌恶的那些特质,尖锐、贪婪、占有欲、卑鄙、自我中心和自私,是成功的特质。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The climate system is extraordinarily complex, and our understanding of it is still evolving.