Every truth goes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident.

通过人类学研究发展出的人类活动评价的一般理论，教会我们一种比我们现在所拥有的更高的宽容。

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Never underestimate the importance of "useless" fundamental research.

语言不仅仅是一种工具；它是流离失所者的家园。