Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.
嗯,第一条规则是,如果你只是记住一些孤立的事实,然后试图把它们背出来,你是不可能真正知道任何东西的。如果事实不是挂在一个理论的格子架上,你就没有把它们变成一种可用的形式。
Farmers don’t just grow crops—they grow communities.
The footsteps of Nature are to be traced, not only in her ordinary course, but when she deviates from it in her most extravagant excursions.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.