If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

  • -- Albert Einstein 爱因斯坦

如果人们仅仅因为害怕惩罚而善良,而希望得到回报,那么我们真的很遗憾。

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We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

我们愿意相信我们不是为了生存而是为了做一个好人,我们不愿意承认我们是为了生存才做一个好人。

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

我不相信个人的不朽,我认为道德是人类独有的,没有任何超人权威的支持。

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

我一直擅长数学和科学,我从来没有意识到这是不寻常的或不受欢迎的。

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

一所好学校应该被称为“全城最好的学校”。