具备文化素养意味着拥有在现代社会中茁壮成长所需的基本信息。

如今你修习先王之术，仰慕圣人之义，诵读诗书，遍览百家之言，不可胜数。甚至还将它们抄写于竹帛上。

语言既是武器也是创伤，取决于谁握着笔。

The world needs reliable energy, and coal still plays a critical role in providing it.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.