A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
人将会死,国家会建立亦会倾颓;但思想将永远长存。思想可承受的远大过死亡。
One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas.
The power of mathematics lies in its ability to abstract and generalize.