The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Mathematics is not just about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

你不能只是坐在那里等待生活来找你，你必须主动去争取。