Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

  • -- Deborah Harkness 黛博拉·哈克尼斯

魔法提供了一种仍然有可能存在的方式,一种对世界所提供的无限感知。当发现科学的不足时,魔力总是存在的。

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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

今天看来,它很可能在未来完全被废除,因为它在某种程度上已经被过去不断的进步所减轻,而现在看来,人类对知识的无限提升,以及通过知识对物质力量和对自然的统治。

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

这些沉睡的力量深藏在人的内心;使他吃惊的力量,他做梦也没想到会拥有;如果这些力量被激发起来并付诸行动,将会彻底改变他的生活。

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

找到可能极限的唯一方法是超越它们,进入不可能。