阅读是一种自由的行为。

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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.

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

"Books are empathy machines. They allow us to step into someone else's shoes and see the world through their eyes."

机器并未将人类与自然的重大问题隔绝，而是让人更深入地卷入其中。