The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

棋盘宛如世界,一个个棋子仿佛世间的种种现象,游戏规则就是我们所称的自然法则。另一边的球员对我们隐藏起来了。

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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

我们不像我们看起来的那样。我们不仅仅是我们看起来的样子。演员知道这一点。因为演员知道他内心深处有一个巫师和一个国王,他也知道当他在日常生活中扮演自己的时候,他在扮演一个角色,他在表演,就像他在舞台上扮演一个角色一样。

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

我们可以让卫星、行星、太阳、宇宙,甚至整个宇宙系统,受到法律的约束,但我们希望通过特殊的行动立即创造出最小的昆虫。

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

不可否认,这种要求相当武断地限制了作为现实世界中所发生事件的可能原因而被承认的事实。

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

我不认为任何球员能发挥他的潜力,因为人们把你看得那么高,你永远不会像他们期望的那么好。

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

男人把友谊像足球一样踢来踢去,但它似乎不会破裂。女人把它当玻璃一样对待,它就会破碎。

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

上帝已经用清晰简洁的语言说明了他是如何创造宇宙的,我们不应该怀疑他的话。

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

作为一名顶级球员,你必须控制自己的情绪。你以为你能控制一切。

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

你不能没有哲学,因为每件事都有它隐藏的意义,我们必须知道。

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

到处都应该发现财富,这是商业世界的利益所在。

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

新闻总是一门残缺不全的艺术。你会得到一些碎片。