Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you get rid of him on the weekends.
 　 
    給他一條魚，你可以喂他一天；教他釣魚，他周末就不會再來纏你了。——Gary Apple    True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
 　 
    真正的科學首先教人懷疑和知道自己無知。——Miguel de Unamuno

    Truth has no special time of it’s own. Its hour is now always.
 　 
    真理沒有自己特定的時間段。它的時間永遠是現在。——A.Schweitzer     Growing old is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
 　 
    越來越老並不可怕，可怕的是讓人覺得越來越老。——Kenny Rogers

    Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
 　 
    如果沒有了圖書館，我們還有什麼呢？我們沒有了過去也沒有了未來。——Kay Bradbury     Scientific knowledge aims at being wholly impersonal.
 　 
    科學知識要求完全不受個人的影響。——Bertrand Russell

    Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
 　 
    生活中沒有可怕的東西，隻有應去了解的東西。——Marie Curie     Truth is beautiful. Withoutdoubt; and so are lies.
 　 
    真理是美的；毫無疑問，謊言也是如此。 ——Emerson.

Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.
 　 
    大自然永遠不會欺騙我們，欺騙我們的往往是我們自己。——Rousseau

    You can never plan the future by the past.
 　 
    永遠也不能依照過去來將來   ——Burke    Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.
 　 
    時間是個多才多藝的表演者。它能展翅飛翔，能闊步前進，能治愈創傷，能消逝而去，也能揭示真相。   ——Franklin P.Jones    The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.
 　 
    在所有頭腦的影響之中，大自然的影響可謂是在時間上最先，在作用上最為重要的。   ——Emerson

    Death…is no more than passing from one room into another.
 　 
    死亡隻不過是從一個房間進入另一個房間。——Helen Keller    Important principles may and must be flexible.
 　 
    重要的原則能夠也必須是靈活的。——Abraham Lincoln

    That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
 　 
    科學的本質是：問一個不恰當的問題，於是走上了通往恰當答案的路。——Jacob Bronowski    The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
 　 
    在過去人們麵臨的危險是變成奴隸，而在將來危險是人類可能變成機器人。——Erich Fromm

    Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
 　 
    知識是一寶庫，而實踐就是開啟寶庫大門的鑰匙。——Fuller    The Golden Rule is that there are no golden rules.
 　 
    真正的金科玉律就是世上並無金科玉律。——G.B.Shaw
    
    The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
 　 
    熱愛大自然的人內外協調一致，即使進入成年後依然保持著童心。    ——Emerson    Ten men banded together in love can do what ten thousand separately would fail in.
 　 
    以聚在一起的十個人能夠完成一萬個分散的人做不到的事情。——Thomas Carlyle    Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts.
 　 
    想象不應脫離現實。——A.N. Whitehead

    There are two sides to every story ... at least.
 　 
    每個故事都可以從兩個方麵看，至少兩個方麵。——Ann Landers

    Today is not yesterday. We ourselves change. How then can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be fittest, continue always the same?
 　 
    今天不同於昨天。我們自己也在。那麼，我們的著作和思想，如果想永遠不過時，怎麼能始終不呢？    ——Thomas Carlyle

    Love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.
 　 
    隻有愛才能使原子的力量造福人類，而非危害人類。——W. A. Peterson    Life is long if you know how to use it.
 　 
    如能善於利用，乃長。——Seneca

    The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
 　 
    真理最偉大的是時間，其最大的敵人是偏見，其永遠的同伴是謙遜。——C. C    One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
 　 
    直到夜幕降臨，人們才知白晝的輝煌。    ——Sophocles

    Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
 　 
    靜水流深。——Shakespeare
    
    What is a weed? —A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
 　 
    什麼是雜草？——雜草是一種利用尚未被發現的植物。——Emerson    The man of science does not discover in order to know; he wants to know in order to discover.
 　 
    科學家並非為了知道什麼而尋求發現；他們是為了有所發現而想知道什麼。   ——A. N. Whitehead    Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
 　 
    動物是如此怡人的，它們不問任何問題，也不提出批評。——George Eliot    Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
 　 
    天知道今天看來是胡言亂語的東西明天會不會被證明是真理呢？ ——A. N. Whitehead.