The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it.
世界始于人类之前,也必将终于人类之后。
I write not to explain the world but to understand it.
出自《海国图志》。这种风气一旦开启,智慧的日头就会出现,才可以见到东海的百姓,和西海的百姓没什么区别。
最好的游戏是那些能把人们聚集在一起的游戏。
History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.