文明不是绝对的，而是相对的……我们的思想和观念只有在我们的文明范围内才是真实的。

The most important political development of the last two centuries has been the rise of the modern state.

我们海产品的健康始于水域的健康。

As in geometry the most natural way of beginning is from a mathematical point, so is the same method in observations and natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive.

我不是天才，但是我在某些事情上很聪明，我就只关注这些事情。

I wake up every morning and I say to myself, ‘You’re a bad bitch. You can do whatever you want.’

世界称之为不道德的书，是那些向世界展示其自身羞耻的书。