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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时，真理就会受到相当大的歪曲，而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单，假设变成教条，相对变成绝对。

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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

物理学变得如此复杂，以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上，要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间，以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。

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Our live set's become increasingly complex recently; we've been doing stuff that's been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it's quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances.

我们的现场直播最近变得越来越复杂;我们所做的事情对大多数人来说信息量太大了，我认为观察人们在这种情况下的行为非常有趣。

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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

远敌总比近处的好。

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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

与神职人员既不要亲密也不要疏远。

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