It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our present knowledge, that totally opposing views are held on the nature of the forces which have shaped the face of the Earth.
一个奇怪的事实是，关于塑造地球表面的力量的性质，人们持有完全相反的观点，这反映了我们目前知识的不完整状态。
I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.
渔民是我们的伙伴，他们的利益必须放在首位。
I don't think you ever get used to the insanity of fame.
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.
Learning is not a matter of trial and error, but of insight.
Science is the backbone of our industry, but compassion is its soul.