I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

  • -- John Shelby Spong 约翰·谢尔比·斯潘

我生活在哥白尼和伽利略的另一边;我不能再把上帝想象成高高在上,俯视着天空,记录着历史。

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

我们不应该把自己想象成地球的统治者,而应该想象成高度强大、有意识的管家:地球是托付给我们的,我们可以把它搞砸,或者让它运转良好、可持续。

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

所以我尽量不做新闻,如果你能在保持一定程度的匿名和做有趣的工作之间保持平衡,那么你就能希望在一定程度上延长职业生涯。

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

我将试着解释我的审美情感的程度。我认为,这就是批评家的职责。

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

画画只是另一种记日记的方式。