The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

  • -- Freeman Dyson 弗里曼·戴森

博士制度是学术势利的真正根源。拥有博士学位的人认为自己是祭司,而发明家通常没有博士学位。

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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

但我更希望学生们去大学学习,并为新经济秩序的严酷做好准备,而不是向他们收费来资助足球项目,这非但不能增强学术使命,反而是对它的嘲弄。

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

正如一个人在年轻时推迟满足的能力是未来学术和专业成就的有力预测器一样,纪律对于国家的长期经济健康也至关重要。

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

直到现在,我才认识到制造业力量和国家运输系统之间存在着一种相互的关系,没有它们,国家运输系统就不可能得到充分的发展。

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

在这色彩的运动中,我找到了本质,它不是从一个系统或一个先验的理论中产生的。

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

人们如此重视外在。很恶心。

I respect people and expect that kind of respect back.

我尊重别人,也希望得到同样的尊重。