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。

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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

所有存在的事物都是一个整体。我们把美丽而稀有的东西看作有价值的东西,把丑陋而丑陋的东西看作污秽而腐朽的东西。污秽而腐朽的东西可以变成稀有而有价值的东西,稀有而有价值的东西可以变成污秽而腐朽的东西。

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

任何国家的知识状况将对其所采用的一般教学制度产生直接影响,这是一项显而易见的原则,不需要进行调查。

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。

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

每件事发生一次就不会再发生。但凡是发生两次的事,必定会发生第三次。

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

他们有这么多拉丁球员,我们得请一位拉丁教练上来。

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

寻找人的缺点的人一定能找到。