The historian must be a poet and an artist in order to give life to the dead bones of the past.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

"Grief is a sort of madness, I think. It makes you do strange things."

孔子说：“不在那个位置上，就不要想那个位置上的事。”

科学是赋能的工具，而不是控制的工具。

过去总是与我们同在，因为它滋养着现在。