My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

我的工作是教导我的抱负,使它们与事实相符,而不是试图使事实与我的抱负相协调。

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

人们常常注意到,在激情的激励下写出好诗的人,在其他情况下却写不好。

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

中年,甚至老年的偏狭,对每个人来说都是再熟悉不过的事实。

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

我不能教任何人任何东西。我只能让他们思考。

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

教书需要很多精力。