One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science， is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness， such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life， in ordered to find the peace and the security， which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈动机之一，是逃离日常琐碎生活及其痛苦的粗鲁和绝望的沉闷，就像这些人将宇宙及其构建置于他们情感生活的枢纽中，以寻找他们在个人生活的狭窄漩涡中找不到的和平和安全。
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
寻求知识是唯一值得踏上的旅程。
根本不稳固必然会央及枝叶。行为不守信必然会损害声誉。
自然界的所有效应只是少数不变定律的数学结果。
If they're all lies, shouldn't we try to stay away from them? But we can't.
为明天做准备的最好方法就是集中你所有智慧，所有的热忱，把今天的工作做得尽善尽美。
你会说他做这些是为了讨好看守。或者也许是为了同我们搞好关系。而我则认为他只是为了再度体验一下正常人的感觉，哪怕只是为了短短的片刻。