No society can surely be flourishing and happy， of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
没有一个社会能够真正繁荣和幸福，其中大多数成员都贫困和痛苦。
A building should be rooted in its site, but reach for the sky.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
【译文】水过分清澈就不会有鱼，人过于明察就不会有人为你出主意。世上的聪明人若减少一半，那么愚笨的人也就没有了。
The most important quality in a scientist is persistence.
A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it.