The equations that evolved in the minds of geniuses are the sonnets of God. Newton’s universal inversesquare law of gravity was superseded by Einstein equations. Dirac equation was as prophetic as Maxwell–Heaviside equations.
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Many men have had intuitions well ahead of their time … Gibbs rather than Einstein or Heisenberg or Planck to whom we must attribute the first great revolution of twentieth-century physics. (Norbert Wiener)
Science has no national borders. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. (Carl Sagan)
There are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will. (Blaise Pascal)
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. (Charlie Sykes)
whereas in thinking of God, a man must abstract Him from all substance, and not think of Him as a form of extension, but as an order of events. God was no Being, but pure Act — the principle of a transcendental world-order. — Heinrich Heine, Reisebilder
人念及上帝时，应该把祂抽离一切实在，而不将祂想象为占空间的形式，上帝不是存在，而是世易时移之力，一个形而上世界的秩序的原素。— 海涅，《游记》
For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands. (Seneca the Younger)
Before you were born your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way paying bills, cleaning your room, and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. … — Charles Sykes(author of DUMBING DOWN OUR KIDS)
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. ― Winston S. Churchill
Winston Churchill: The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill: The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill: Where there is great power there is great responsibility.
American Dream: that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. - The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; [on the fear of death] (William Hazlitt)
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. — Herbert A. Simon
We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. - William Hazlitt
Newton was far from the crude thought that explanation of phenomena could be attained by abstraction. — Bernhard Riemann
The word hypothesis has now a somewhat different significance from that given it by Newton. We are now accustomed to understand by hypothesis all thoughts connected with the phenomena. — Bernhard Riemann
Natural science is the attempt to comprehend nature by precise concepts. — Bernhard Riemann
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — Blanche DuBois in play A Streetcar Named Desire
Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou
I started to realize that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Karoli Baba put together. — Steve Jobs
Men are judged by what they do. A man must take the consequence of his own deeds.
There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. — Mark Twain
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ― Albert Einstein
第三次世界大戰將要使用的武器我並不知道，但是第四次世界大戰將會用木棍和石頭開戰。（愛因斯坦）
Internet的确产生了大众文化，但是我们不应该忽略，它也可能降低创造性，因为许多人在寻求信息，而自己却没有时间进行思考。 – Ilya Prigogine
前乌克兰党魁伽弗里洛夫是个业余数学家，20世纪60年代利用大权在握，设法让他给出的黎曼假设的错误证明发表出来，蓋爾范德为此差点心脏病发作，因为他认为这一黎曼假设错误证明的发表，对苏联的数学造成了很大的伤害。
‘It’s really hard to find maintainers…’ Linus Torvalds ponders the future of Linux
Science is the only news. — Stewart Brand
John Polkinghorne suggests that the mechanistic explanations of the world that have continued from Laplace to Richard Dawkins should be replaced by an understanding that most of nature is cloud-like rather than clock-like.
René Descartes is a philosopher who created analytic geometry, by contrast, Hegel is just a philosopher who was ignorant in mathematics, ‘Such things are nowhere more at home than among philosophers who are not mathematicians’,as Gauss put it. Schopenhauer is better than Hegel.
A Time for Leadership by Margaret Thatcher - China will not become a superpower to match the United States — at least, not while it is held back by the deadweight of socialism.
The tides caused by the moon are key to life forming on earth. As Maggie concluded “the moon is the mother of us all”
Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down?
In the fight against climate change, we pay now or our children pay later
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电视时代，沙发上的土豆。触屏时代，低头的屏奴。娱乐至死的时代。唯一能安慰我们之可悲的东西就是消遣，可是它也是我们可悲之中的最大的可悲。……若是没有它，我们就会陷于无聊，而这种无聊就会推动我们去寻找一种更牢靠的解脱办法了。可是消遣却使得我们开心，并使我们不知不觉地走到死亡。
乔治·华盛顿曾经说过：”如果被剥夺了言论自由，我们就会变得愚笨沉默，如绵羊般被拉向屠宰场。”
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
David Hilbert: Every boy in the streets of our mathematical Göttingen understands more about four-dimensional geometry than Einstein. Yet, despite that, Einstein did the work and not the mathematicians.
陈省身：我不久即看到爱因斯坦所遭遇的问题之极度困难以及数学与物理的不同，数学中有名的问题通常是已经提得很明确的，但在物理学中，问题的提法也是问题的一部分。不知道他试图实现统一场论的物理学洞见如何？手头的数学工具也就那样。丛和联络这两个几何概念都很简洁，我相信爱因斯坦会喜欢它们。
浮生若梦，人生几何？有首流行歌曲叫《光阴的故事》，有部情景喜剧叫《成长的烦恼》
耶稣会的教士都接受过良好的欧洲人文教育并经受过准军事训练，利玛窦、汤若望、南怀仁都是这一组织中出类拔萃的人才，他们身后有足够的支持，供他们以精密的仪器、华美的书籍、先进的技术赢得中国上流社会的青睐。
有时我觉得自己学习中文非常有益，陶冶性灵，但更多的时候，我觉得自己是中毒太深，不敢再把情绪放纵到诗与文里面，以免如梦如幻，贻误终身。
工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。
浮生若梦，人生最大的痛苦是梦醒了发现自己无路可走。
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《道德经》中“修之于身，其德乃真”的本义，似乎不是在嘲笑那些伪君子言行不一“说一套、做一套”、仁义道德嘴把式，而是：尽管你认同那些更有利于使你“做最好的自己”的种种道理，你却不能够把它们身体力行，这些能够“德润身”的道理就只是些虚的道理，而坏习惯依旧像鬼魂一样形影不离地跟随着你。
明-洪应明-菜根谭：迷则乐境成苦海，悟则苦海为乐境。John Milton, Paradise Lost: The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
“饭吃七分饱”的富兰克林表达法：在我见到的人中，饿死的人寥寥无几，撑死的人倒有成千上万。 Eat not to Dulness. Drink not to Elevation.
相当一部分中国公民以经济为惟一生活目标。科名之心不可有，经济之才不可无。Money talks. In God we trust, the rest pay cash. Money changed hands.
子不语怪、力、乱、神。知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。子曰：未知生，焉知死？未能事人，焉能事鬼？敬鬼神而远之。～ 疑邻偷斧，疑心生暗鬼。～ 精气为物，游魂为变。～ 一念之善，吉神随之；一念之恶，厉鬼尾之。～ 暗示能作用于心理，人的知觉伴生错觉甚至幻觉，居心不良的人就有可能在其中搞鬼。
美国很有创造性的微分几何学家 H.惠特尼对数学的研究与学习的方法论方面有相当独到的见解，他认为最好的学习方法是学以致用，没有自己的想法那不是真正的学习，他对研究过程的描述相当吻合认知心理学关于知识的心理表征、认知地图、图式、问题解决与创造性的观点。
在科学天才的头脑中进化着的科学方程，是造物主的十四行诗。牛顿以横绝一世的数学才能综合出让天文学家奉为圭臬的万有引力定律，爱因斯坦以彰显理性思维极致的广义相对论引力场方程超越之。麦克斯韦与赫维赛德提炼出以对称之美著称的电磁场方程组，狄拉克以魔法般的相对论性量子电动力学方程组令人叹为观止。
工作是银，健康是金。1992年世界卫生组织在加拿大维多利亚召开的国际心脏健康会议上发表的关于保健的《维多利亚宣言》认为健康的四大基石是：1、均衡膳食，2、戒烟限酒，3、适量运动，4、心理平衡。
1976年愚人节，乔布斯和沃兹尼克、Ronald Wayne 一起创建了苹果公司，11天后 Ronald Wayne 选择了退出，并把他名下如今价值220亿美元的10%股权以800美元卖给了乔布斯和沃兹尼克。 有个CNN记者采访了与巨额财富失之交臂的 Ronald Wayne，Ronald Wayne 说道:”What can I say? You make a decision based on your understanding of the circumstances, and you live with it, But when you’re at a focal point of history, you don’t realize you’re at a focal point of history.”