Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

  • -- Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦

每个人都认为这个文明已经持续了很长时间,但它真的需要很少的祖父的孙女带我们回到黑暗时代。

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

一个新的科学真理不是通过说服它的对手并让他们看到光明而取得胜利,而是因为它的对手最终会消亡,而熟悉它的新一代会成长起来。

There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.

没有一个时刻听起来太熟悉了,只要它听起来很熟悉,我们就想用它来做点什么来消除那种舒服的感觉。

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

这个家伙来到本垒板前,总有机会获得大满贯,而每个人都忘记了他错过的所有时间。

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

文明是极其脆弱的,在我们和我们内心的恐惧之间没有太多东西,只有一层清漆。

I'll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it's time to get married, I'm going to be an amazing wife.

我永远都是一个疯狂、有趣的人,但当我要结婚的时候,我会成为一个了不起的妻子。

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

只有当一个文明的神被毁灭时,这个文明才会被毁灭。