Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

《致陈新政及南洋同志书》（1914年6月15日）

Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.

CRISPR is a tool, and like any tool, its impact depends on how we use it.

能源转型不仅仅是替换一种能源，而是重新构想我们对可持续性和效率的整体方法。

【大意】善于游泳的人容易被淹死，善于骑马的人容易摔下马来，正是因为他们的长处，反而自招祸难。