Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark； and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales， so is the other.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Fishermen are our foundation; without their hard work, there would be no Chinese fisheries today.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The beauty of science lies in its ability to explain the natural world.