“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.”
“我不相信神學意義上的上帝,它會褒善懲惡。我的神創造了各種規律去辦好這些事。它的世界不是靠祈求和冥想來維係,而是由各種各樣不變的規律去支配。”
“I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to prove what I believe, I can't. You know them to be true but you could spend a whole lifetime without being able to prove them. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.”
“我相信四海之內皆兄弟,我相信每個人都有獨到之處。但是如果你要我證實我的所信,我做不到。有些東西你明知確實,但你可能竭盡畢生也未必能證實。人的思維在已知和確證了事物的基礎上可連續進行。有時人們的見解達到了一個更高的知識層麵,但永遠也不能確證怎麽到達的。所有重大發現都包含著這樣的飛躍。”