Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

  • -- Abraham Pais 亚伯拉罕·派斯

当然,相对引用频率并不能衡量相对重要性。谁没有想过要写一篇如此基础的论文,以至于很快大家都知道了,却没有人引用它呢?

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Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

只有理性才能使我们相信这三个基本真理,而不承认这三个真理,就不可能有真正的自由:我们相信的不一定是真理;我们喜欢的不一定是好的;所有的问题都是开放的。

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

基本思想不是经验的结果,而是头脑的特定结构和活动的结果,这种结构和活动独立于一切经验的起源,尽管在实践中不断地与经验相结合。

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

我谈到了他的幻灭。以为他在追求一个伟大的梦想。然后他似乎一下子看穿了这一切,然后回家了。然后他开始酗酒,我当然可以理解。

I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind.

我只想忠实地描述我心目中的人和事。

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

我根本不能很好地处理我已经要面对的相对数量的事情。

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

我不崇拜任何人,也不想成为任何人。