数学不是沿着一条清理干净的高速公路小心翼翼地行进,而是一次进入陌生荒野的旅程,探险者常常会迷路。
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.
The debate over minimum wage should focus on evidence, not rhetoric.
最深刻的真理往往是我们回避的那些。
我们越是靠理智生活,就越不理解生命的意义。
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
Sometimes the most unexpected findings lead to the greatest advances.