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To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

可以肯定的是，任何一种社会机制，无论构建得多么好，都不可能有效，除非它背后有一种意愿和决心使其发挥作用。

— Cordell Hull 科德尔船体

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关于学习、善意与成长，读一句，再想一想。

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

科学与控制无关。它是在面对比我们最新的理论更丰富、更微妙的东西时，培养一种永久的惊奇状态。这是尊重，而不是掌握。

Richard Powers 理查德·鲍尔斯

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

即使你每次都走完全相同的路线——就像一首十四行诗一样——沿途发生的事情也不可能日复一日地一成不变，因为诗人的健康、视力、预期、情绪、恐惧和思想也不可能一成不变。

A. R. Ammons 安蒙斯

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

要获得知识，必须学习;但要获得智慧，就必须观察。

Marilyn vos Savant 玛丽莲·沃斯·莎凡特