I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

  • -- Alexander The Great 亚历山大大帝

我宁可在知识上胜过别人,也不愿在能力和权柄上胜过别人。

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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

如果一个人有好玉米、好木头、好木板、好猪可以卖,或者比任何人都能做得更好的椅子、刀子、坩埚或教堂的器官,你会发现一条通往他家的宽阔的、不易走的路,尽管这条路是在树林里。

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

大多数书,就像它们的作者一样,都是为死亡而生;只有少数几本书能说死亡对它们没有统治权;他们活着,他们的影响永远存在。

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

剑桥是殖民地或自治领人去的地方,他们去卡文迪什实验室研究物理。

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

人性最大的痛苦之一就是新思想的痛苦。