Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

  • -- Paul Virilio 维希留

科学不再像过去那样依附于“真理”,而是更倾向于直接的“有效性”,现在正滑向衰落,这是公民的失宠。

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道,书籍影响着个人;个人,虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分,影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

不可忘记的是,我们所谓的信仰的理性基础,往往是为我们的本能辩护的极度非理性的尝试。

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them

我不断地努力,不去嘲笑,不去哭泣,不去蔑视人类的行为,而是去理解它们

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

没有什么比高效地做根本不应该做的事情更没用的了。