One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

一个人应该尊重公众的意见,因为这是必要的,以避免饥饿和远离监狱,但任何超过这是自愿服从不必要的暴政。

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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

我相信,作为一名教师,我们有责任向孩子们展示,没有观点、没有品味、没有情感是有价值的,除非它们是我们自己的。当我还是个孩子的时候,因为没有被展示出来,我遭受了巨大的痛苦。

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

真正的科学家愿意忍受贫困,如果需要,也愿意忍受饥饿,而不让任何人来指挥他的工作应该朝哪个方向走。

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

任何笨蛋都可以知道事实;发表意见是一门艺术。