The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

A well-designed home should tell a story about the people who live there.

拿破仑在征俄惨败时如此说。

宇宙是不对称的，我相信我们所知道的生命是宇宙不对称的直接结果或其间接后果。

过去总是与我们同在，因为它滋养着现在。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.