Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

  • -- Nicolas Chamfort 尼古拉·查姆福特

人可以追求美德,但不能合理地追求真理。

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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

你很难超越你的公众。如果他们对廉价的性能感到满意,你就不会轻易达到更好的效果。如果他们知道什么是好的,并且需要它。你会渴望并燃烧,直到你实现它。但在历史上,男人总是过早地出生整整一个时代。

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

当然,相对引用频率并不能衡量相对重要性。谁没有想过要写一篇如此基础的论文,以至于很快大家都知道了,却没有人引用它呢?