“真相会让你自由，但首先它会让你生气。”

在数学中，最简单的问题往往导致最深刻的发现。

数学是模式的科学，我们研究它们以学习如何逻辑地、批判地和创造性地思考。

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

大海是一面镜子，映照出凝视它的人的灵魂。