The most direct, and in a sense the most important, problem which our conscious knowledge of nature should enable us to solve is the anticipation of future events, so that we may arrange our present affairs in accordance with such anticipation.
我们对自然的自觉认识所能解决的最直接且在某种意义上最重要的问题,是对未来事件的预测,以便我们能根据这种预测安排当前的事务。
A genius is nothing more nor less than a man who sees farther than others.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
读书人虽然有学问,但只有知行合一,把学问付诸于生活实践,才是最根本的。否则的话,就是《弟子规》上讲的“不力行,但学文,长浮华,成何人”了。