The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials—these are for organisms in ample supply—nor for energy which exists in plenty in any body in the form of heat, but a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.
生物普遍存在的生存斗争不是为了原材料——这些对生物来说是充足的——也不是为了能量，能量以热的形式在任何物体中都大量存在，而是为了熵，熵是通过能量从炽热的太阳转移到寒冷的地球而变得可用的。
A fine remedy for our anxieties over our low status in society may be to travel—whether literally or figuratively, by viewing works of art—through the gigantic spaces of the world.
写作是为无声者发声的一种方式。
【译文】三个人在一起走路，其中一定有可以作为我老师的人。选择他的优点向他学习，对于他的缺点，就反省自己加以改正。
最成功的人是那些擅长备用计划的人。
The border between dream and reality is thinner than we think.