If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

  • -- George Berkeley 乔治伯克利

如果我们承认这个世界的创造是如此非凡的一件事,那么我们似乎就承认了一件人类所理解的、超越任何其他奇迹的、奇怪的、新奇的事情。

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People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

人和松鼠是非常不同的。大多数人不会这么认为。但我发现有一种情况它们非常相似。那就是:当我开着车向他们驶来的时候。然后它们就很难区分了——尤其是如果人类是多毛的。

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

在疾病开始时的最早的感觉,通常是在识别出可识别的症状之前,是恐惧。有些地方出了问题,死亡的一瞥在脑海深处的某个地方发生了变化。这是我们最古老的恐惧。

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

当今公众对科学的焦虑,很大程度上是一种担忧,即我们可能永远以对部分事物无休止的、强迫性的关注来忽视整体。

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

在这个世界上,我唯一能接受的暴君就是内心的声音。

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

质疑的能力是人类一切进步的基础。

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

没有宽容,我们的世界就会变成地狱。