I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

  • -- Christiaan Barnard 克里斯蒂安·巴纳德

我不相信医学上的发现对人类生活有多大的促进作用。就像我们创造方法来扩展它一样,我们也在发明方法来缩短它。

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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

我们试图组织这个世界,而这个世界并不是我们的大脑想要组织它的方式。我们讲述生活中人们的故事,我们把想法投射到他们身上。我们计划与人的关系,我们使我们的生活成为故事。我认为我们不能避免那样做。

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

人类语言和文字所能做的最奇怪的事情就是创造一个隐喻。这是一个惊人的飞跃,不是吗?

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

相信我们已经知道了所有的答案,并且再也不会得到任何大的惊喜,这是非常自以为是的。

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

雄心壮志是人类心中的一种强大的激情,无论我们达到多高,我们永远不会满足。

After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone.

在做了两年的一个节目之后,你真的对每个人都产生了感情。

I believe in giving back very strongly.

我坚信回馈是非常重要的。