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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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。

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

为艺术而艺术是富人的哲学。

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

理论帮助我们忍受对事实的无知。

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

哦,看在上帝的份上……好好生活,好吗?