The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

  • -- David Hare 大卫·海尔

文明的最终趋势是走向野蛮。

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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

在我们这样一个文明近现代的国家,几乎无穷无尽的物质财富财富带来了资本和劳动产业的风险,物质利益在某种程度上吸引了人们的注意力,这是很自然的,但在其他地方却不为人知。

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

我希望在我们傲慢地把有明显缺陷的文明带到其他星球上之前,我们先把这个地方弄对,即使它们可能完全无人居住。

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

任何在使用电脑时忘记时间的人都知道梦想的倾向、实现梦想的冲动和错过午餐的倾向。

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

逻辑理论的知识没有使人成为好的推理者的倾向。