The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant 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.

Profit grows where responsibility is planted.

Science is a powerful tool for humanity to understand and transform the world.

文学是表达不可言说之物的艺术。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Literature is the most powerful form of empathy.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.