People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
真正的困难不在于构思新想法,而在于摆脱旧观念。
感官有时会欺骗我们,因此永远不要完全信任那些曾经欺骗过我们的人,这是明智的。
The worst thing you can do is to pretend to be something you're not.
所有人都是不朽的,但那些没有受教育的人是以一种更低级和不令人羡慕的方式不朽。