我之所以富有，是因为我知道我什么时候错了……我基本上是通过认识到我的错误而生存下来的。

未来已经到来——只是分布不均。

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.