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The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

  • -- Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯·培根

思考事物的本来面目，没有替代或欺骗，没有错误或困惑，其本身就比整个发明的收获更高贵。

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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

当然，现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质，并得出一些简单的事实，这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的，而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。

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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

现代性的挑战在于不抱幻想，不幻灭。

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Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

当心，大人，那边的东西不是巨人，而是风车。

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

理解开始的第一个迹象之一是渴望死亡。

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You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

当你的想象力开始惩罚你的时候，你知道你有麻烦了。

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

观察是一门被动的科学，实验是一门主动的科学。

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

我听见了就忘记了。我看见了，我记得。我知道，我理解。

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

爱是想象战胜了理智。

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