The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
真相并不总是美丽的，但对真相的渴望却是美丽的。
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it ought to be.
The act of creation is an act of transcendence.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.