It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

  • -- Arthur Eddington 爱丁顿

希望在不远的将来,我们能够理解像星星这样简单的东西,这是明智的判断。

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时,真理就会受到相当大的歪曲,而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单,假设变成教条,相对变成绝对。

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

世界从来不是安静的,即使它的寂静永远回荡着同样的音符,在振动中逃离我们的耳朵。至于我们所感知到的,它们向我们传递的是声音,偶尔是和弦,而不是旋律。

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

由于摩尔定律的本质,一个极其聪明的图形程序员在某一时刻所能做的任何事情,都可以在若干年后被一个仅仅有能力的程序员所复制。

I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

我的意思是,对我来说有没有人并不重要,我害羞也不重要,只是那声音太迷人了,帮助我摆脱了那些压抑。

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

奎尔说,发生在他身上最糟糕的事情是,他从不相信自己的判断。我说过,从现在开始,我要按照自己的判断行事。

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

感谢上帝赐予我们书籍;他们是远方和死者的声音,使我们成为过去时代精神生活的继承人。

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

我们似乎有能力,但到下个世纪末,将会有新的沙漠,新的废墟。

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

决策者必须根据他们获得的最佳情报做出判断。

Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

好吧,我只是希望我们能和平相处,我希望这能带来一些好处。

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

人必须利用他所拥有的,而不是对他所没有的抱有希望。