However, in our culture today, we don't give ourselves the permission to be human, the freedom to experience these painful emotions as well.

然而在当今的文化中，我们不准许自己为人，也没有体会痛苦情绪的自由。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I appreciate particularly the idea of human rights, because it is meant to get a round culture, and particularly a round religion, to find those common denominators, hopefully not the lowest denominator that's just ethical washout. It doesn't mean anything.

我尤其赞赏人权的观点，因为它是要构建一个全面的文化，尤其是一个全面完整的宗教，以此来寻求人类共通的地方，希望别是最低层次的共通点,否则只会是道德的失败，没有任何意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

By taking cells from the skin, for example, or cells from your blood or cells from the bone marrow and keeping them alive in culture, we've been able to study how human cells work and learn a lot about the functioning of human organism.

举例来说,通过从人的皮肤,骨髓,或者血液中提取细胞,并在培养基中培养,就能研究人类细胞是如何工作的,并在一定程度上了解人类机体的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选