The human race has today the means for annihilating itself—either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war, by a brief fit of destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.
人类今天拥有自我毁灭的手段——要么是在完全疯狂的发作中，即在一场大战中，通过短暂的破坏发作，要么是通过对原子技术的粗心处理，通过缓慢的中毒和遗传结构的恶化过程。
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
数学中的每个问题都是一个等待解决的谜题，而乐趣就在于解决的过程。
科学家的遗产不在于发表的论文，而在于激发的心灵。
Contemporary Chinese art needs to find its own voice, not simply imitate the West.
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."