The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

知识分子中最大的一些身份错乱就是他们很难记得住自己不是上帝。

Mathematical intuition is like a muscle - it grows stronger with exercise.

如果你有一个好主意，并且你做得对，它就会成功。

真相是，我们都在寻找某种东西，但我们不知道它是什么。