I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
The lab notebook is a scientist’s most honest companion.
——1996年5月29日在哈佛大学演讲
临终前与诸同志谈话,1925年3月11日