创造力的发动机是提出一个问题:“一定要这样吗?” 政治改革、科学发展、关系改善以及更好的书都是提出这个问题后出现的。
The motor of our ingenuity is the question ‘Does it have to be like this?’, from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.
创造力是在不存在关系的地方看到关系的能力。
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
以这样奢侈的国君,去统治那些爱好奢侈的臣民,想要国家不动乱,是不可能的。