The function of education is to help us go beyond what is given, to transcend the immediate.

Architecture must be rooted in the local, but speak to the universal.

数学中最深刻的思想往往源于最简单的观察。

The human being is essentially self-determining; he becomes what he wills himself to be.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

Now some advantages particular to this age are not to be denied. Boredom seems to have been vanquished. There is always something to do, but hasn’t this translated into a perpetual distraction in our lives.

The city is the greatest invention of mankind.