孔子说：“不到苦思冥想时，不去提醒；不到欲说无语时，不去引导。不能举一例能理解三个类似的问题，就不要再教他了。”

科学的全部不过就是日常思考的提炼。

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）

我不让任何人暗淡我的光芒。

to be understood

我不是一个放弃信仰的人。