我们被警告不要向这个民族的人提供虚假的希望。但美国不呢神就是个不可能的故事，从来没有任何希望是假的。

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

I've never been interested in being average.

"The challenge of quantum mechanics is not in its complexity, but in its simplicity—it forces us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the universe."

The goal of mathematics is to understand the structures that underlie the phenomena we observe.