"I think that mathematicians are much more like artists than they are like scientists."
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
The writer's life is a life of sentences.
生物普遍存在的生存斗争不是为了原材料——这些对生物来说是充足的——也不是为了能量,能量以热的形式在任何物体中都大量存在,而是为了熵,熵是通过能量从炽热的太阳转移到寒冷的地球而变得可用的。
The language of poetry is the language of the heart, and it speaks to the heart in a way that no other language can.