The striving to find a meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in man.

一个组织的质量永远不能超过组成它的头脑的质量。

Curiosity drives discovery. Without it, science would stand still.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

The novel is the one bright book of life.

水产养殖的创新可以在不耗尽海洋资源的情况下养活世界。

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience.

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.

Fiction allows us to tell truths that are too slippery for nonfiction.