There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

  • -- William Kingdon Clifford 威廉·金顿·克利福德

没有一个科学的发现者,没有一个诗人,没有一个画家,没有一个音乐家不告诉你,他发现了现成的发现,无论是诗歌还是绘画,都是来自外部的,而不是他有意识地从内部创造出来的。

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I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

我曾经认为有一种科学的方法来做事情。比如回答问题的正确方式之类的。就像,没有!没有方法,没有科学。

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

但是,对于道德家来说,罪恶是什么;对于法学家来说,犯罪是什么;对于科学家来说,无知也是什么。

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

我不能过多地干涉我的家庭生活,因为有前妻随时准备把我累垮。

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

我还没准备好当沙皇。我对统治一窍不通。