子曰：“赐也，女以予多学而知之者与？”对曰：“然，非与？”曰：“非也，予一以贯之。”
孔子说：“端木赐啊！你以为我是一个博学强记的人吗？”子贡答道：“是的，不是这样吗？”孔子说：“不是的，我是用一个基本道理把它们贯穿起来的。”
原文英文：The most merciful thing in the world， I think， is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity， and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
创新不是由逻辑思维带来的，尽管最后的产物有赖于一个符合逻辑的结构。
The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
数学的历史是人类心灵独创性和创造力的证明。
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.