文明的真正考验不是人口普查，不是城市的规模，也不是庄稼的产量——而是这个国家培养出什么样的人。

最好的事业往往吸引最糟糕的论据支持，这在智力和道德层面上似乎同样适用。

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

We are all trapped in the web of language, but it is also our only means of escape.

"We need to be insatiable in our desire to learn from the outside."

Nothing will come of nothing.

世界充满了故事，每个故事本身就是一个世界。

物理系统的对称性反映在其能级的简并性上。