The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

美是一种终极价值——我们因其本身而追求它，无需进一步的理由。

我对现实和梦想之间的空间感兴趣。