I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

The ethical questions raised by CRISPR are not obstacles—they are essential conversations.

文学的美在于它让我们在一生中活过千次。