No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

无论在科学上还是在实际生活中,没有什么比认为方法和勤奋可以弥补缺乏天赋的观念更大的错觉了。

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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen.

在科学领域,科学家们经常会说,‘你知道这是一个很好的论点;我的立场是错误的’,然后他们就会改变主意,你就再也听不到他们的旧观点了。他们真的做到了。它不会发生。

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

在音乐行业,我们重视巨大的成功。我意识到,虽然我喜欢那样,但这不是我写作的目的。如果我开始这样做,它就变得不纯了。

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

竞争的问题在于,它消除了设定自己的道路、发明自己的方法、寻找新方法的要求。

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

高中时我和很多女孩约会,大学时我和一位年轻女士约会了八个月。

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

我从未见过如此天真的信念与更大的智力贫困相关联。

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

没有什么比浪费时间更有害的了。

The record industry is a world within itself.

唱片业本身就是一个世界。