“ A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. 理论只有对错之分。模型还有第三种可能性:它可能是正确的,但无关紧要。 Manfred Eigen 艾根
“ Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. 当然,现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质,并得出一些简单的事实,这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的,而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。 Frances Wright 弗朗西丝·莱特
“ Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. 书可以告诉一个人,他最初的想法并不新鲜。 Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯