Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

  • -- George Berkeley 乔治伯克利

我所知道的,也许存在着许多我和任何其他人都没有或不能拥有的观念或概念。

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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

我是个相当苦行的人。我大部分的写作都是在晚上。你不会分心,你的大脑会进入你所写的东西,进入你所写的世界,而不是你所处的世界。

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

我死后,报纸上可能会有一两段。我的名字将会出现在大英博物馆阅览室的目录中,在一长串无人问询的书单的最前面。

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

年轻的人类学家认为人类学过于多样化。以人类学的名义做的事情是无限的;你可以做任何事,称之为人类学。

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

直到我放弃了那个黄铜戒指的想法,它才出现了。幸运的是,它正好与我的清洁时间重合。

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

利用最简单的思想是天才的本质。