Persistence in research often pays off when you least expect it.

世界上不知有多少贝丝，羞怯，娴静，躲在角落里，有需要时才露面，甘心情愿地为他人活着没人留心她们做出的牺牲，直到炉边的小蟋蟀，消歇了唧唧之声，芳香温煦，一去不返，只留下一片沉寂和空虚。

选自《盐铁论·孝养》。距：通“拒”。【大意】拒绝接受别人意见的视听闭塞，自己独断专行的就会遭到孤立。

The discovery of neutrino oscillations was a turning point in our understanding of particle physics.

You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.

知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。