在考试里，愚人的问题，智者无法回答。

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence 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.

译文：上面的官吏廉洁，民间的风俗也会随之改变。

发现可能性的极限的唯一方法就是超越它们进入不可能。