Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  • -- Ian Hacking 伊恩·哈金

每隔一段时间,你身上就会发生一些事情,让你意识到人类并没有看上去那么糟糕。

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To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

在实验结束后向统计学家咨询,通常只是让他进行尸检。他也许能说出这个实验的原因。

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

如果所有人的生命都依赖于它们的用处- -这可以用某些标准来判断- -世界上就会突然出现可怕的死亡。

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

这发生在他们当中最好的人身上。你停止唱歌,嗓子也不练了。没有借口。我搞砸了。

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

人类是唯一能够以理性的名义做出非理性行为的生物。

I got hurt . Really hurt. And sometimes when that happens, something inside me shuts off.

我受伤了。造成很大的伤害。有时当这种情况发生时,我内心的某些东西就会关闭。

Art is a personal act of courage something one human does that creates change in another.

艺术是一种个人勇气的行为,一个人所做的事会给另一个人带来改变。

I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.

我真的只是在用镜子召唤一些直到我看到才知道的东西。

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

旁观者往往比旁观者更能判断比赛的结果。