If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

  • -- Henri Poincare 彭卡勒

如果自然不美丽,就不值得知道;如果自然不值得知道,生命就不值得活下去。

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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

每个人都有权在安全、美丽的空间里从城市的一端走到另一端。每个人都有权乘坐公共交通工具。每个人都有权利在自己的街道上一览无余,而不是到处都是栏杆、标志和垃圾。

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

科学和艺术,或者同样的道理,诗歌和散文就像旅行和远足一样彼此不同。旅行的目的是它的目标,旅行的目的是过程。

We are much beholden to Machiavel and then it ought to be done. That if something has been invented, then we must use it. We don’t stop to thing of the possible consequences of its use.

我们非常感激马基雅维利,这是应该做的。如果发明了什么东西,我们就必须使用它。我们不会停止讨论使用它可能带来的后果。

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

我还没有天真到接受不合理的价值评估的地步。

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

飞行也许不是一帆风顺,但它的乐趣是值得的。

Don't let the bullshit of today convince you that you aren't beautiful.

不要让今天的废话让你相信你并不美丽。