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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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

当你老了,头发花白,睡意朦胧,在炉火旁打盹时,请取下这本书,慢慢地读,梦见你曾经眼神柔和,阴影深沉。

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。

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

但编辑仍然是世界的读者。因此世界的眼睛。

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

智者知道如何管理自己的生活,这样沉思才有可能。