The historian's task is to resurrect the voices silenced by time.
The power of abstraction is that it allows us to ignore irrelevant details and focus on the essential aspects of a problem.
Technology is the means, experience is the goal.
I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
生物为生存而进行的普遍斗争,不是为了原材料,也不是为了能量——能量以热的形式大量存在于每个物体中(可惜无法转化);而是为了熵,它通过能量从炽热的太阳转移到寒冷的地球而变得可用。