追求声名的人必然会危害其自身，广积财富的人必然会给后代带来灾祸。行善作恶迟迟得不到报应，并不是上天疏忽大意，而是上天想成全君子而灭掉小人。灾祸和福祚是上天用来表示慈爱之心的手段，就像雷雨雪霜一样，都是为了培育滋养万物。所以君子担心有灾祸便恭敬戒惧，小人得了便宜便忘了危险。君子害怕祸来反而会招来福祉，小人以疏忽之心看待福祉反而会招来灾祸，这就是《左传》所说的「祸福没有定数，全由各人自召」。

Life is too short to waste time on things that don't make your soul happy.

The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light.

Every electron tells a story, and our job is to listen with attosecond precision.

我从不试图取悦观众，我只做我认为对的事情。

The capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world.

做出将塑造你未来的决定的最佳时机就是现在。