The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  • -- Ernst Mach 恩斯特马赫

科学的生物学任务是为充分发展的人类个体提供尽可能完美的定位自己的方法。没有其他的科学理想可以实现,任何其他的科学理想都是毫无意义的。

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The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

先知关心每一个人,并尽其所能确保他们在未来的安全,这一定是他富有同情心和慈悲心的最大特点。

We are much beholden to Machiavel and then it ought to be done. That if something has been invented, then we must use it. We don’t stop to thing of the possible consequences of its use.

我们非常感激马基雅维利,这是应该做的。如果发明了什么东西,我们就必须使用它。我们不会停止讨论使用它可能带来的后果。

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

一个思考者把自己的行为看作是实验和问题——即试图发现一些东西。成功和失败是他最重要的答案。

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

我很难不得出这样的结论,最完美的男性美类型是撒旦,正如弥尔顿所描绘的那样。

Don't wait for the perfect moment, take a moment and make it perfect.

不要等待完美的时刻,花点时间让它变得完美。

I'm terribly human.

我非常人。