真相往往比小说更离奇。

The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.

国家是理性的行为者，在无政府状态的国际体系中寻求最大化其权力和安全。

发展必须被理解为一个多维度的过程，涉及社会结构、民众态度和国家制度的重大变革，以及经济增长的加速、不平等的减少和贫困的消除。

The mind is not a machine to be understood, but a living process to be experienced.