一个公开的民意测验无法代替思考。
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
今天种下的每一棵树都是我们永远不会见到的后代的遗产。
“我们唯一需要决定的是如何利用给予我们的时间。”
城市的伟大是由它的公共空间衡量的。
我对英雄不感兴趣，我对幸存者感兴趣。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
词语的问题在于你永远不知道它们曾经过谁的嘴。
"I am not interested in the surface of things, but in what lies beneath."