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。
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.
智者说话,是因为有些话要说;愚者说话,则因为要说些话。
The only secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.
Understanding inequality requires looking beyond averages.
当生存成为日常课题,长期计划便成了奢侈品。