The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.
与其不受教育,不知不生,因为无知是不幸的根源。
Black holes are not just cosmic vacuums; they are the ultimate laboratories for testing the limits of our physical theories.