We build not for today, but for how today will be remembered tomorrow.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel is the one bright book of life.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

从未经历过痛苦，也就从未被赐福。

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Trust the scientific process—it’s slow but it works.

对知识的追求是无止境的，而这正是它令人兴奋的地方。

你要为你做的每一件血腥的事和你没有做的每一件事付出代价。你不能选择不付出代价。你要选择你要服用哪种毒药。仅此而已。

我相信图像传达复杂情感的力量。

没有美德的地方就没有荣耀。