Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  • -- G. M. Trevelyan G.M.Trevelyan先生

公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。

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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

一个民族,只要它在过去和将来之间存在着一种真正的对比,只要它有勇气去冒险,超越过去的安全,它就能保持活力。没有冒险,文明就会完全衰落。

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

学问是一回事,苦差是另一回事。我很快得出结论,没有什么能吸引我去阅读,更不用说做笔记了,成百上千本非常、非常、非常无聊的书。

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

平权法案是一个很好的术语,用来描述在工作、就业、晋升、奖学金和大学录取等方面对更优秀的白人的种族歧视。

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

我认为文明有不同的程度,也有许多不同的表达方式。但一个人是文明的还是不文明的。

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards

教学的全部艺术就是唤醒年轻人天生的好奇心,以便在以后满足它的艺术

Love is three quarters curiosity.

爱是好奇心的四分之三。