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。
成功只有在字典里才会出现在工作之前。
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.
To write is to create a world within a world.