艺术是沉思。它是心灵的乐趣,心灵在自然中探寻,并在那里预见到自然本身所激发的精神。
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
算法的美不在于它们的复杂性,而在于它们的简洁和优雅。
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The spread of liberal democracy and the integration of the world economy have created a situation in which the only legitimate form of government is one that is based on popular sovereignty and respects basic human rights.
The final test of a novel is whether you care so much for the people that you want to know what happens to them next.