愚人创造了这个世界，智者不得不活在其中。

科学家研究自然并非因为它有用；他研究它是因为他从中获得乐趣，而他从中获得乐趣是因为它是美丽的。

In auctions, the winner's curse is not that you win, but that you pay too much for what you win.

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

物理学和数学之间的界限并不像我们想象的那么清晰。