It is not because certain things are difficult that we do not dare;it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
所有伟大的真理开始于对上帝的亵渎。
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.