So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
如果给我一部时间机器,我会告诉21岁的自己,人的幸福在于知道生活不是一份漂亮的成绩单,你的资历、简历,都不是你的生活,虽然你会碰到很多与我同龄或更老一点的人今天依然还在混淆两者。生活是艰辛的,复杂的,超出任何人的控制能力,而谦恭地了解这一点,将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的生存。
Small changes in the environment can have big effects on behavior.
数学家的工作大多是孤独的追求,但也具有深刻的合作性。
希伯来人比其他任何国家都更致力于文明人类。
To be a poet means to be awake when others are asleep.
夜晚是一块画布,而我们是颜料。
写作是一种理解世界的方式。它是一种理解混乱的方式。