The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

  • -- Niels Bohr 尼尔斯·波尔

事实的对立面是谬误,但一个深刻真理的对立面很可能是另一个深刻真理。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

我们的思想能够越过我们为它所画的分界线。除了世界所包含的对立物之外,还有一些新的见解。

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

在所有诉讼所带来的对事物的奇怪的热度下,诉讼的过程本身就会产生世界上最深刻的误解。

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

我的父母在我出生的时候就离婚了,我的母亲是一位政治学教授,就像一位女权主义的摩门教徒,这有点自相矛盾。

As profound as our thoughts may be, they will never be so profound as our fingernails.

虽然我们的思想可能是深刻的,但它们永远不会像我们的指甲那样深刻。

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

我一直是个科幻小说爱好者。