He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

  • -- Isaac Asimov 艾萨克·阿西莫夫

他读了很多书,如果有人想到他的长寿的话;但他的沉思远远超过了阅读。他常说,如果他读的书和别人一样多,他就不会比别人知道得更多。

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

艺术是沉思。这是心灵的快乐,它探索自然,并在那里占卜自然本身所具有的精神。

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

我坚持认为,那种最纯洁、最高尚、最强烈的快乐,来自对美的沉思。

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad.

真正的事实是没有人读广告。人们读他们感兴趣的东西,有时是广告。

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

我读书,我亲近大自然,就像蜜蜂亲近花朵一样,我要的是一种能酿出属于我自己的蜂蜜的花蜜。