Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind， as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another， yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

人往往将现况归咎于环境因素，但我不相信造化弄人。世界上出类拔萃的人都是运筹帷幄，主动找寻自己想要的环境。要是遍寻不获，他们就创造一个。

A poem must be an event, not a record of an event.

The pursuit of science is more than the pursuit of understanding. It is the pursuit of wonder.

我们每一次的观察都是向理解宇宙迈近的一步。