人往往将现况归咎于环境因素，但我不相信环境因素这回事。那些出类拔萃的人会去找些他们要的环境因素，如果找不到，他们会去创造他们要的环境因素。
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
The best way to predict the future of chemistry is to invent it.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
真理从不畏惧辩论。
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.