One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.
The beauty of mathematics lies in its simplicity and universality.
创新不仅仅是关于技术——而是关于思维方式。
总意志总是正确的,但指导它的判断并不总是明智的。