The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

  • -- Lewis Thomas 路易斯·汤马斯

未来太过有趣和危险,不能委托给任何可预测、可靠的机构。我们需要尽可能多的犯错。最重要的是,我们需要保持我们相互联系的思想的绝对不可预测性和完全不可能性。这样我们就可以像过去一样,保留所有的选择。

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Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

偏见、激情和怀疑比煽动私利或最顽固地坚持关于权利的真正意见分歧更危险。

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

当羞耻心还在的时候,美德还没有完全在心中熄灭;温和也不会从暴君的头脑中完全消失。

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

这个世界变得如此危险,一个人能活着离开是幸运的。

In the back of our minds, we know we have to give them one tiny bit of hope.

在我们的内心深处,我们知道我们必须给他们一线希望。