大自然造就了人们在身体和心智的才能上如此相等,以至于尽管有时候可能会有一个人明显在身体上更强壮,或者在思维上更敏捷,但总结一切,人与人之间的差异并不是如此重大,以至于一个人可以因此而主张自己有权享受任何另一个人也可以同样主张的权益。
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
制度是一个社会的游戏规则,或者更正式地说,是人为设计的约束人类互动的框架。
真实永远触不可及。
The greatest theorems are those that reveal hidden connections.
Memory was in this respect similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
我们都是自身矛盾的总和 - 这就是传记如此迷人的原因。
人类心智的结构更适合更新世而非现代世界。
The future of energy lies in diversification - no single source can meet all our needs.
The discovery of topological insulators has opened up a new frontier in condensed matter physics, where the interplay of symmetry and topology leads to novel quantum states of matter.
Nature speaks to us through patterns, even when those patterns are hidden beneath apparent randomness.
意识并非实体,而是过程。
In mathematics, the journey is often more important than the destination.