A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学校
School
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
我获得了布里克斯顿建筑学院的奖学金。我搞砸了，没能按时出席。
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
对我来说，保持纯洁的良心远比指导任何伟大的目标重要。
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
当一个孩子出现在学校，身体和精神上都没有准备好学习，他或她永远不会赶上。
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
科学上的新发现将继续为那些敢于冒险的人开辟一千个新的领域。
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
我上初中的时候，老师们投票选我为最有可能坐电椅的学生。
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
我经常逃课去看电影——即使是在早上，在巴黎那些很早就开始营业的小剧院里。
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
如果学校生活中的每一天都是最后一天，那也没什么可挑剔的。
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
甚至当我在学校演出的时候，在小学做戏剧的时候，我总是离开书本，开始即兴创作。
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
如果一个人在底层有常识的话，那么对于他的上层社会来说，科学是一件第一流的家具。
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
一个微小的错误思想可能会引发富有成效的探索，从而确立有价值的真理。
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
在自然科学中，每一个已知的事实，在得到证实之前，都是由某个人的预感来预测的。
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
人类学是一门科学，它为她提供了一个观察、批评和向世界微笑的平台。
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人，而不是那些知道得很多的人，如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
无线电业务中我最不感兴趣的是无线电业务。但是我已经学了一点。这不是火箭科学:你得到评级，这很好。
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
在人类所知之外，还有第五维度。它是一个和空间一样广阔，和无限一样永恒的维度。它是光明与黑暗、科学与迷信之间的中间地带。
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
科学有时被说成是与信仰对立的，而且与信仰不一致。但事实上，所有的科学都建立在信仰的基础上，因为它假定自然规律的持久性和统一性——这是永远无法证明的。
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
傻瓜的头脑把哲学理解成愚蠢，把科学理解成迷信，把艺术理解成迂腐。因此大学教育。
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
科学上的每一个重大进步都来自于一种新的大胆的想象。