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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

我们的文化和常识背后的神话并没有教会我们与宇宙有相同的感觉，而只是宇宙的一部分，只是其中的一部分，只是面对它——外星人。

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

我认为，对我们国家和文明的未来来说，没有什么比充分认识艺术家的地位更重要的了。如果艺术要滋养我们文化的根基，社会必须让艺术家自由地追随他的愿景，无论它把他带到哪里。

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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

每一门科学的基础都有一套固定不变的原则体系，就像宇宙受到这些原则的制约和支配一样。人不能制定原则;他只能发现它们。

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While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

虽然我们中的一些人可能比其他人更了解某些事情，但它是所有已知事物中最薄弱的一部分。从这个意义上说，我们都非常无知。

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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

科学是文化不可分割的一部分。它不是由一个神秘的祭司来完成的，这不是一件陌生的事情。这是人类智力传统的荣耀之一。

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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

高等教育正面临着与经济一样的挑战，即需要更多训练有素、受教育程度更高的公民。

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

理想与美丽是一致的;理想对应于理想，美对应于形式;因此理念与实体是同源的。

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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

人们没有很好的直觉，知道如何根据他们已经知道的来衡量新信息。他们倾向于高估它。

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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

我第一次看到外星人他长得那么可爱。我想要他。我想外星人

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My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!

我妈妈总是教我为自己穿衣服，不要跟随潮流，因为潮流会结束!

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It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

与其被告知要相信什么，不如被教导要批判性地思考。

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The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

宇宙越是容易理解，就越是显得毫无意义。

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I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

我是人，不让任何东西与我格格不入。

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No two wars are identical.

没有两场战争是相同的。

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