我们必须倾听科学，即使它挑战我们的传统方法。

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

——序，姚伯麟《战后太平洋问题》，1919年9月

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

人在谈论自己时最不像自己。给他一个面具，他就会告诉你真相。