质量不是承诺；它是一种结果。

译文：精神、道德、言语、行动，大致上以收敛为主，发散是不得已而为之，天地间的人和事物都是这样。

科学的进步不仅依赖于事实的积累，还依赖于知识的组织。

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Technological progress must go hand in hand with ethics.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them - and then, the opportunity to choose.

"The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all."

The best fertilizer is the farmer's shadow.