The best fertilizer is the farmer's shadow—nothing replaces presence and attention in the fields.

在数学科学中，比其他任何学科都更常见的是，那些一度最抽象、似乎远离一切实际应用的真理，在下一个时代会成为深刻物理研究的基础，并最终体现在某些实用发明中。

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

我不是想骗任何人以为这是一张照片。我是想创作一幅有其自身现实性的画作。