There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

一个人没有什么办法不去逃避思考的劳动。

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Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

因此,无论是对科学还是对工业,都有必要进行分工和联合。我接受,我给予——这就是人类的生活。每个人都有自己的方向。

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

几个人每人拥有一万到二十万英亩的土地。除了荒凉的山,和荒凉的旷野,穷乏的作工的人,无处可歇。

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

我觉得好像我愚弄了全世界,让他们以为我是个成年人,现在他们却让我生育。

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

所有的感知也是思考,所有的推理也是直觉,所有的观察也是发明。

Man thinks first before he writes to build; Nature writes first before she designs to create.

人在写作之前先思考;大自然在设计创造之前先会写作。

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

你不要问自己这样或那样做是否方便,而要问它是否正确。

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

一个善良而忠实的法官总是喜欢高尚的东西而不喜欢权宜之计。

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

避免战争,因为战争总是使人类落后。

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

我也尽量避免做明显的舞蹈记录。

The only greatness for man is immortality.

人类唯一的伟大是不朽。