The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials—these are for organisms in ample supply—nor for energy which exists in plenty in any body in the form of heat, but a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.
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 past is not a line but a landscape.
设定目标的用意不在于非得达成，而在于有个明确方向。
The best fruits come from the best practices and the most dedicated people.
许多当代作家喝的东西比写的还要多。
当你倾听最接近问题的人时，才能做出最佳决策。
The laser is to attosecond physics what the telescope was to astronomy.