I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'
The past is never dead; it's not even past. This is especially true in detective fiction.
"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one—but no one at all—can tell you what to read and when and how."
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
In quantum information theory, we've learned that information is not just about what you know, but about what you don't know.
采矿技术的创新不是一种选择,而是我们对工人和环境应尽的义务。