A study of history shows that civilizations that abandon the quest for knowledge are doomed to disintegration.

  • -- Bernard Lovell 伯纳德·洛威尔

历史研究表明,放弃对知识的追求的文明注定要解体。

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And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

我所有的努力都是不幸的探险者放弃探险回来;标本,野心的百合花还在生长,还没有采摘;但是,时间,时间是我所缺少的一切来找到他们,作为伟大的收藏家在我之前。

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

对和平与进步的追求不可能在几年内以胜利或失败告终。对和平与进步的追求,连同它的考验和错误、成功和挫折,绝不能放松和放弃。