The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.
历史学家必须是诗人,不是为了创造,而是为了重新创造。
Separate the processes of creation from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgement.
统计学是文明的火炬手,是进步的真正衡量标准。
流放是一个有自己法则的宇宙。
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.