The human mind is not just a passive recorder of reality but an active constructor of it.

【译文】 季路问怎样侍奉鬼神，孔子说：“人都不能侍奉好，还谈什么侍奉鬼神？“请问死是怎么回事？“生都不了解，还谈什么了解死？”

数学是逻辑思想的诗歌。

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

True innovation comes from understanding tradition deeply enough to break it properly.