原文英文：The most merciful thing in the world， I think， is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity， and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
我认为，人的思维缺乏将已知事物联系起来的能力，这是世上最仁慈的事了。人类居住在幽暗的海洋中一个名为无知的小岛上，这海洋浩淼无垠、蕴藏无穷秘密，但我们并不应该航行过远，探究太深。
Steel built the past, but innovation will define its future.
——〈民权主义第五讲〉，1924年4月20日
"Language is the house of being. In its home man dwells."
艺术不必有任何意义，它只需要对你有意义。
Risk management in mining isn't about eliminating all risks - that's impossible - but about understanding and mitigating them intelligently.