To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  • -- Marilyn vos Savant 玛丽莲·沃斯·莎凡特

要获得知识,必须学习;但要获得智慧,就必须观察。

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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

只有当你看到密集的成千上万的蚂蚁,聚集在山上,把地面涂黑,你才开始看到整个野兽,现在你观察它思考,计划,计算。它是一种智能,一种活生生的计算机,它的智慧来自于爬行的比特。

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

渴望获得任何艺术或科学的人,首先要寻找获得艺术或科学的手段。我们若在属乎血气的事上这样行,何况在属乎灵的事上呢。

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

机会产生思想,而思想又被机会消除;任何艺术都无法保存或获得它们。

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

我们所观察的并不是自然本身,而是暴露在我们质疑方法之下的自然。