人类理解的职责是明白有些事情是它无法理解的。

每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。

凡事不能只看表面现象。钓鱼人虽然躬着身子，并不是因为对鱼恭敬；捕捉老鼠的人，把虫子留给老鼠吃，并不是因为喜爱老鼠。

Violence is not random; it follows predictable patterns that reflect underlying evolutionary logic.

The artist must be a child of the void.

没有什么是确定的，也没有什么是不可能的。

【译文】君子成全别人的好事，不帮助别人做成坏事。小人与此相反。

Every building is a response to its place.

科学中最激动人心的短语，预示着新发现的不是“我找到了！”而是“这有点奇怪……”

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.