现代政治的巨大挑战是将身份认同的要求与自由民主的要求相调和。

Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

The only thing that could make us what we are would be a perception of something like us.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.