It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone.  

即使可以传达，也无法被理解。

"谁如命运似的催着我向前走呢?""那是我自己，在身背后大跨步走着。"

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.