Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

历史是一个我正试图从中醒来的噩梦。

预测未来的最好方法就是去创造它。

科学的进步依赖于新技术、新发现和新思想，可能按这个顺序。

Architecture should not shout. It should whisper to people's lives.