Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  • -- Will Durant 威尔·杜兰特

文明的存在是经地质同意的,如有变更,恕不另行通知。

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Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.

文明是一个过程,在这个过程中,一个人逐渐增加“我们”或“我们”这个词所包含的人数,同时减少那些被贴上“你”或“他们”标签的人,直到这个类别中没有剩下一个人。

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

我们未能保护科学不受自然的投机性扩展的影响,继续将物理和数学属性赋予超出自然可观测范围的假想实体。

Do you ever wonder how many people notice you? But you don't notice them because you are too busy noticing someone else that will never notice you?

你有没有想过有多少人注意到你?但是你没有注意到他们,因为你太忙着去注意一个永远不会注意到你的人?

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn't nice, i don't know what is.

我希望你能注意到自己什么时候是快乐的,并在某个时刻大声叫喊、喃喃自语或思考,如果这不是件好事,我不知道什么是快乐。

Go to the moon and back is not as challenging as it returns to the earth and have to deal with humanity.

登上月球并返回地球并不像返回地球并与人类打交道那么具有挑战性。

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

幽默消失了,文明也就消失了。