Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

当然,如果知识是有价值的,那么在一个远比托斯卡纳富裕的国家里,允许像道尔顿这样的天才从事基础教育的苦差事,绝不可能是一个好的政策。

相关名言

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

在所有伟大的戏剧时期,选择和题材的完全自由,个人对待的完全自由,以及观众渴望给予自己同情的倾听,即使涉及到指导,都带来了巨大的成果。

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

他的失败和他的成功一样有价值:通过错误地判断一件事,他遵循了另一件事,即使当时他不知道那是什么。

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?

当运行反应堆的人错误地起床,或者出于某种原因,决定某个下午重写指令表时,会发生什么?

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

对一个人来说,没有执着无疑是一个巨大的灾难。

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

你立定心意的时候,要谨慎,因为这心意必属你。

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

我认为女人太宝贵了,不能参加战斗。