Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  • -- Imre Lakatos 拉卡托斯

对理论的盲目投入不是一种智力上的美德:它是一种智力上的犯罪。

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I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

我认为尺寸是雕塑家作品中最没用的商数,因为它需要大量的投入和时间。对我来说,这是最好的工具。大小决定空间和大气:大气变成体积。你站在那个形状里,在那个区域里。

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

这是一种犯罪,因为历史上伟大的戏剧,可以追溯到古希腊,是每个人的遗产的一部分。就像在音乐中,贝多芬或莫扎特,那是每个人的遗产。

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

即使只有一种可能的统一理论,它也只是一组规则和方程。是什么让方程式充满激情,并创造出一个宇宙让它们来描述?

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

对任何物理理论来说,没有比这更公平的命运了:它应该为一种更全面的理论指明道路,在这种理论中,它作为一种极限情况而存在。

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

如果你做大事,他们会印你的脸;如果你做小事,他们只会印你的大拇指。

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

对演员来说,最重要的是投入程度。