The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The beauty of physics lies in its ability to explain the complex with the simple.

嫉妒在今日是一种禁忌话题，但这个社会上最普遍的感受，便是嫉妒。嫉妒来自生而平等的精神。

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The success of a society depends on its ability to balance the demands of individual freedom with the need for social cohesion.

重要的不是想法，而是将想法变为现实。

I don't let fear dictate my life.