The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

对一个人来说,最好的书并不总是那些智者推荐的书,而是那些能满足他特殊需求的书,能满足他头脑中自然的渴望,因此能唤起兴趣,吸引思想。

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Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

人类对秩序的追求,艺术只是秩序的一种表现形式,这种追求源于整个有机世界的一种类似的普遍倾向;与之并行的,或许还源自于对物理系统中最简单结构状态的追求。

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

你取得的成就越多,你就应该激发出更多的兴趣去走得更远,因为有那么多——我不是指金钱上的,也不是指社会上的。这整个的生活经历是如此丰富!

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

我不喜欢被人认出来,我对出名一点也不感兴趣,我只是做我所做的。如果我能像柯克船长一样,把自己发射上去,然后再发射下去,我会的!

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯,把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

要读的书不是为你着想的书,而是让你思考的书。

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

偶尔会有一个无辜的人被送到立法机关。