Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
The only way to truly understand something is to do it yourself.
在我看來,現(xiàn)在有許多人—甚至包括科學家—似乎都只是見樹不見林。關于歷史與哲學背景的知識,可以提供給那些大部份正受到當代偏頗觀念所左右的科學家們一種不隨波逐流的獨立性。這種由哲學的洞察力所創(chuàng)造的獨立性,依我來看,正是一個工匠或?qū)<?,與一個真正的真理追尋者之間,最大的區(qū)別。