Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

大自然和大自然的法则隐藏在黑夜里。上帝说,让牛顿去吧!一切都是光明的!

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The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

我在法学院做的最聪明的一件事就是邀请我未来的妻子和我一起出去跳舞。当我从事法律工作时,我做的最明智的一件事是:辞职。我在写作中做过的最聪明的事:跟随自己的想法,写下我想写的东西,除此之外别无他法。

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

不要逃避辛苦,让自己因这样或那样的才能而变得卓越;只是不可专心在一个枝子上。努力对所有事情都有清晰的概念。完全不放弃科学;因为科学只是其中之一。

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

科学中的灵感可能与思想有关,但与艺术无关。在艺术中,感官是对表达媒介本能地作出反应的。

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

起初什么都没有。上帝说:“要有光!””“还有亮光。还是什么都没有,但你可以看得更清楚。

A miracle is not the breaking of the laws of the fallen world. It is the re-establishment of the laws of the kingdom.

奇迹不是打破堕落世界的法则。它是重建王国的法律。

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

我们不能拿着火炬照亮别人的路而不照亮自己的路。

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

从进化的角度思考的另一种选择是根本不思考。

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

法律太温和,很少有人遵守;太严厉,很少执行。