Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

我想起了其他的浮泛在生与死与爱以及被遗忘的川流上的的时代，我便感觉到离开尘世的自由了。

Legal systems are not static; they evolve over time.

在现代研究中，合作是关键——没有任何一个人能独自解决重大挑战。

第二名只能说明你是头号输家。

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.