The joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities, blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
想到自己可能成为从世界上消除最大灾难之一的工具，同时怀有享受独立、家庭和平与幸福的希望，这种喜悦常常如此强烈，以至于在草地上研究我喜爱的课题时，我有时会陷入一种遐想。
The most important skill for an empirical researcher is not math, but judgment.
热力学第二定律，以克劳修斯给出的形式，告诉我们自然界存在趋向某种我们称之为热平衡状态的倾向。
译文：我的身躯四处漂泊，行为踪迹狂放不羁，就如同那没有系缆的孤舟，自由自在。