Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

  • -- Tycho Ottesen Brahe 第谷·奥特森·布拉赫

现在我很清楚,天空中没有实心的球体,而那些被作者们设计出来以拯救表象的球体,只存在于想象中。

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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

如果有一个明确的前景,这些邪恶是野蛮人过去的一部分,那么至少我们可能会找到一点安慰。这样的前景是不存在的:甚至没有任何科学分析能够对过去和现在人类行为的恐怖做出哪怕是一丁点的回答或解释。

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

我们对我们的孩子和地球上其他物种的未来所做的一切,是一个明确的道德问题。

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

通常首先受伤的是想象力,而不是心灵;它更加敏感。

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe.

过度活跃的想象力会把人变成懦夫,而不是像许多人认为的那样,让人恐惧过度。