One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science, is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life, in ordered to find the peace and the security, which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈动机之一,是逃离日常琐碎生活及其痛苦的粗鲁和绝望的沉闷,就像这些人将宇宙及其构建置于他们情感生活的枢纽中,以寻找他们在个人生活的狭窄漩涡中找不到的和平和安全。
The future of democracy depends on the ability of democratic societies to reform themselves.
一言一行,效法古代圣贤,就会道德长进;功名利禄,听任天命安排,就会心意闲适;因果报应,考虑子孙福祸,就会办事公正;口体之事,考虑疾病袭来,就会俭朴节省。
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
The human body is a complex puzzle, and viruses are just one piece of it.
我们都在阴沟里,但仍有人仰望星空。
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.