Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

在任何事情上追求完美的艺术家,在任何事情上都无法达到完美。

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Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

今天对万物物理理论的关注,偏离了科学的目的——无情地质疑万物。现代物理学已经变得像斯威夫特的拉皮塔王国,荒谬地飞在地球上方的一个岛上,对地球下方的一切漠不关心。

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

科学认识的上帝必须是唯一具有普遍规律的上帝,是从事批发而不是零售业务的上帝。他不能使他的程序适应个人的方便。

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

我没有逃避任何事情,我也不清楚我要奔向什么。但正如一些伟大的作家所说,我想确定,当我到达死亡时,我已经筋疲力尽了。

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

艺术家不需要知道太多;最重要的是,让他本能地工作,像呼吸或走路一样自然地画画。

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

传统艺术是创造而不是复兴。复兴:留给历史学家吧,他们正在回顾历史。

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.

如果你有梦想,你允许自己梦想,你可以做任何事情。这就是这枚奥运奖牌所代表的。

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

我对我在足球生涯中所取得的一切感到高兴。我想我再也做不下去了。

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

要获得知识,每天都要增加。要想获得智慧,每天都要去除一些东西。

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

我并没有真正寻求关注。我只想好好打球,然后回家。

You will not attain piety until you expend of what you love.

除非你耗尽你的爱,否则你不会得到虔诚。

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

没有怨恨思想的人一定会找到安宁。

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

我多么讨厌那些一味追求随大流的人。

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

我们使用的手段必须和我们追求的目的一样纯洁。

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

有奥斯威辛集中营,所以不可能有上帝。