I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

  • -- Ian Hacking 伊恩·哈金

我对自然和人类世界的所有学科,以及自然科学和社会科学之间的相互作用,都有着异乎寻常的好奇心。

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

没有一个社会能够消除人类的悲伤,没有一个政治制度能够把我们从生活的痛苦、对死亡的恐惧和对绝对的渴望中解救出来。是人的条件决定了社会的条件,而不是社会条件决定人的条件。

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

分手是一种自然的进化,当你试图弄清楚你想要的生活是什么。如果你和一个和你步调不一致的人在一起,那是行不通的。

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

人类可以被认为有双重起源-自然的,这是共同的,对所有人都是一样的-居高人下的,它属于组成整个人类的各种家庭。

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

纯粹的自然科学家很容易忘记心灵的存在,如果没有它们,他既不能知道也不能对物理对象采取行动。

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

从经济产出来看,世界上最富有的国家似乎是我们工作最努力的国家,这一点似乎非同寻常。

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

对人类来说,最危险的不是恶魔或虐待狂,而是拥有非凡力量的普通人。