Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

  • -- Albert Einstein 爱因斯坦

有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。

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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

我想确保我不会妨碍那支球队明年的成功。我不认为我能像他们大多数人那样去训练,而不伤害球队。如果我试着那样做,我会发疯的。

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

你有没有找到任何合理的理由来解释为什么相互的承诺对彼此来说是足够的考虑(就像加尔各答两个只能站在一起的瘦马)?我没有。

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

我认为我自己是一个试图写剧本的人,现在又试图导演剧本。任何超过这一点的事情都是没有意义的,它会阻碍你成为一个真正的人。

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

我认为,人的不幸来自于他的伟大;因为在他里面有一种无限,他虽然很狡猾,却不能把它完全埋葬在有限之中。

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

完全没有目标的生活!我曾瞥见过这种状态,而且常常达到这种状态,却没有设法停留在那里:我太虚弱了,无法获得这样的幸福。

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

我不知道宇宙中是否有任何智能设计的证据,但我可以向你保证,成千上万的日常产品中没有。

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

一个时代的哲学变成了下一个时代的荒谬,昨天的愚蠢变成了明天的智慧。

The things that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

真正困难、真正了不起的事情是放弃完美,开始做你自己。

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

我很清楚,对于许多哲学书籍来说,没有很好的理由让它们听起来如此复杂。

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

我们感知准确性的方式和统计上的准确性是两码事。

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

我们目前确实没有什么值得骄傲的理由:作为一个职业,我们把事情搞得一团糟。

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

宇宙是动态的。当我们有创造力的时候,我们是最有活力的,并且与之接触。

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress.

没有对语言的不断滥用,就不会有任何发现和进步。

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

它比氢更愚蠢,保质期也更长。

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

意识本身就是一种无限的倒退。这就是巧合。

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

人类社会通过把自然变成垃圾来维持自身。

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

自己当律师的人,会把傻瓜当作委托人。

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

诸神以愚妄为妄论,也是枉然。

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

只有疯子才绝对肯定。

Universe consists of frozen light.

宇宙由冰冻的光组成。