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。
自由不过是一个变得更好的机会。
A poet is a painter of the invisible, a sculptor of the intangible.
这个世界是个美好的地方，值得为之奋斗。
假设有效性的唯一相关检验是预测与经验的比较。
成为摇滚明星的想法和成为电影明星的想法一样愚蠢。这都只是个笑话。