Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

我们人类需要,也应该有一个头脑清醒、对世界如何运转有基本了解的公民。

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This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

这是我们开始种植植物的第一天:我们很高兴收集它们,因为当地人提供了他们的帮助,并完全了解如何把它们拿起来修剪。

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

妥协曾经意味着半条面包总比没有好。在现代政治家中,这似乎真的意味着半条面包比整条面包好。

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

一旦出现意志、决定、理由或行动选择的问题,人类科学就会不知所措。

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

在戏剧学校里,他们只会教你如何在舞台上打斗,以及如何在排练时让人感到痛苦。

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

没有学习能力的人都从事教学工作了。

When great questions end, little parties begin.

当伟大的问题结束时,小聚会就开始了。