When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

-- Isaac Asimov 艾萨克·阿西莫夫

当人们认为地球是平的时候，他们错了。当人们认为地球是球形的时候，他们错了。但是，如果你认为认为地球是球形和认为地球是扁平一样错误，那么你的观点就比这两种观点加起来还要错误。

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My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

在我高中的最后一年，当我被大学录取时，我爸爸对我说，‘你可以成为奥运会冠军。“这是我第一次听到别人这么对我说。我说，‘你在跟我说话吗?’

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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

创造性产生于自发性和局限性之间的张力，后者(如河岸)迫使自发性成为艺术或诗歌作品中必不可少的各种形式。

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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

语言只能有意义地处理现实中一个特殊的、受限制的部分。剩下的，大概是更大的部分，是沉默。

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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

这就是科学的全部问题。有一群经验主义者试图描述一些难以想象的奇迹。

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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

人们喜欢想象，因为我们所有的机械设备移动得都快得多，所以我们的思维也快得多。

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The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

穷人的脚步最轻。我们的收入越高，我们控制的资源就越多，造成的破坏也就越大。

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

有些人有成千上万的理由不能做他们想做的事，而他们所需要的只是一个理由。

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

保守主义者不一定愚蠢，但大多数愚蠢的人都是保守主义者。

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Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,

不完美不是我们个人的问题，它是存在的自然部分，

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The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

你的梦想唯一不可能实现的地方就是你自己的想法。

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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

你永远不能低估公众的愚蠢。

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A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

科学家与现实生活在一起。没有比这更好的了。

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Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

理性只能在批判性地回顾过去时使用。

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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

天容不下两个太阳，地也容不下两个主人。

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When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

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