It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

  • -- Lewis Thomas 路易斯·汤马斯

把人类想象成一个摇摇欲坠、容易犯错的精巧装置,总是需要观察和修补,总是处在被撕成碎片的边缘,这是一种扭曲,带有某种极不忠诚的东西。

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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

与无意识地忽视动物的精神生活相比,无意识地歪曲事实几乎是无害的,直到它接近不寻常和不可思议的地步。

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

我认为电视是一种图片媒体,而不是叙事媒体。

I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.

我不能对事情有一个全面的了解。因为我不是她。