There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
事物的价值不在于它们持续的时间,而在于它们发生的强度。因此,有些时刻令人难忘,有些事情无法解释,有些人无与伦比。
Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.
译文:巧妙的如同车辕,笨拙的如同风筝。比喻各有其用。
The more you know about yourself, the more you can give to your characters.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.