教育的目的不是使年轻人在任何一门科学上都变得完美,而是要打开和培养他们的思维,使他们在将来学习任何科学时都能胜任。
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it ought to be.
朗兰兹纲领不是一座完成的建筑,而是一个活生生的、不断发展的框架。
我一直喜欢“怀恨在心”这个短语,因为许多人对他们的怨恨很温柔,就像对待他们心中最亲近的东西一样。
幸福的家庭都是相似的,不幸的家庭各有各的不幸。