The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

生存的斗争不仅存在于物质世界,也存在于精神世界。理论是一种思维,它的生存权与它抵抗竞争对手灭绝的能力是相辅相成的。

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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

没有推理,没有推理或比较的过程;没有思考的东西,没有把两者结合在一起;没有想法——动物不会想到盒子、食物或他要做的事情。

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

当我采访别人,他们给我一个即时的答案,他们通常不会思考。所以我沉默。我等待。因为他们认为他们必须继续回答。第二个思路是更好的答案。

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

在与痛苦的斗争中,人永远不能获得平静;与痛苦的斗争只会产生新的形式的痛苦。

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

我最难吸引的女性注意力来自我两岁的女儿。

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

这个世界越恐怖,艺术就越抽象。

Good girls go bad because bad boys don't treat them right.

好女孩变坏是因为坏男孩对她们不好。

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

你得到的真实越多,这个世界就变得越不真实。

The time is always right to do what is right.

做对的事,时间总是对的。