The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

成长最有力的原则在于人的选择。

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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

自从我开始写作,我就一直坚持着我最初的原则:不写一页,因为无论什么公众,或什么漂亮女孩想要这样或那样;而是按照我自己认为最好的方式,按照它给我带来的快乐来写作。

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

如果人口增长、工业化以及我们排放到大气中的所有物质没有改变气候平衡,我绝对会大吃一惊。当然有。否认是没有正当理由的。

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

我们对一系列理论的经验标准是,它应该产生新的事实。成长的概念和经验的特性的概念是结合在一起的。

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

工作对我来说很重要。我做事要有原则,而不只是为了做事。