The most important political development of the modern era is the rise of the modern state.

You can’t be everything to everyone, but you can be everything to someone.

数学的研究是所有智力和精神进步不可或缺的基础。

To live is to be constantly surprised by life.

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.

新闻自由是英国人所有的公民、政治和宗教权利的保障。

事实上，自然科学长期以来只是大脑和想象力的产物：现在是时候回归到对物质和显而易见事物的朴素而健全的观察上了。