There was a time when the most powerful of human intellects were deluded by the gibberish of the astrologer and the alchemist... But time advances; facts accumulate; doubts arise... The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

曾经有一段时间,人类最强大的智慧被占星家和炼金术士的胡言乱语所迷惑……但是时间进步;事实的积累;怀疑出现……最高的智慧,如高山之巅,最先捕捉并反射黎明。

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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

我确实认为,尽管我尽了最大的努力去抵制它,但我现在已经长大了。这是因为你在很长一段时间里做出了很多非常困难的决定——关于母亲、妻子、工作,以及所有你必须做出决定的事情。

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

如果你想把一个人对你所能倾注的最大的轻蔑和仇恨之杯全部吸干,让一位年轻的母亲听到你叫她亲爱的宝贝“它”吧。

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

我从未经历过另一个人。我经历过我对他们的印象。

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

这就是你的生活,它会在某个时刻结束。