The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Writing is a way of thinking, a way of understanding the world."
"Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."
预测未来的最好方法是研究过去。
If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.