Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

  • -- William Pitt 威廉·皮特

理论原则有时必须为实际利益让路。

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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

为了管理,问题不是遵循一个或多或少有效的理论,而是用手边的任何材料来建造。不可避免的事情必须被接受并加以利用。

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

正如你所说,弦理论需要所有这些额外的维度这来自于弦应该如何表现的一致性要求等等。

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

我想在死后被彻底地用完,因为我越努力工作,我就活得越多。我为生活本身而快乐。

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

我们提出这个要求,不是为了原则,而是为了无产阶级的利益。