Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  • -- Zora Neale Hurston 卓拉·尼尔·赫斯特

研究是形式化的好奇心。它是有目的的戳和窥探。

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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

在任何年龄,我都不能满足于坐在炉边而只是旁观。生活就是要活下去。必须保持好奇心。无论出于什么原因,一个人绝不能背弃生活。

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

所做的大多数研究都是由这样一种要求所决定的,即必须以一种相当明显和可预测的方式加强已被认可或流行的理论。

At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used.

在我进行研究的时候,还没有已知的方法来测量豚鼠的体温。我演示了一种现在广泛使用的技术。

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

一场辩论只有一个目的,唯一的目的,那就是促进两位候选人之间直接的思想交流,仅此而已。

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

生命的意义在于发现你的天赋。生活的目的就是把它送给别人。

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

出版一本书的人在公共场合故意不穿裤子。

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

人类最大的美德也许是好奇心。

I am a drinker with writing problems.

我是个有写作问题的酒鬼。