A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
想法
Ideas
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
任何强大的想法都是绝对迷人的，除非我们选择使用它，否则毫无用处。
I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!
我有一些办法来解决这个问题。它们不是很好的想法，但至少是想法!
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
思想可以改变生活。有时候，你需要做的只是多一个好主意。
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
熟悉数和量的概念并不是数学的本质。
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
我先把书卖了。实际上是给平装本出版商的。我一无所有。我只是有个想法。
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
哈罗德和我们其他人一样，有许多印象，这使他不必为自己的想法而烦恼。
These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
这些都是推动你在音乐上前进的东西——好奇心，对新想法的热情。
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
这就是学院派最大的缺点，它关注的是思想而不是思考。
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
我喜欢身边有书给我灵感——让我大脑的语言部分开始工作。
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
我只是对某些想法的冥想感兴趣，我喜欢画画:这是我的思维方式。
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
我们汇集了最好的创意——把高层管理者的会议变成智力上的狂欢。
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
她知道自己永远不会得到别人的爱作为回报，这一认识对她的思想起了作用，就像潮水对峭壁起作用一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
我知道什么时候这些想法不再新鲜了。当写作不再让我兴奋时，我就知道了。
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
教育的最大困难是从思想中获得经验。
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
一个想法，就像鬼一样，必须先跟它说几句话，才能解释清楚。
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.
如果你仔细想想，语言确实是一项非常了不起的发明。我脑子里有一个非常复杂，混乱，混乱的想法。我坐在这里发出咕哝的声音，希望在你的脑海中构建一个类似的混乱的，混乱的想法，与之类似。
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
大部分最有趣的科学家都曾经或多或少地读过很多科幻小说，要么是在他们成为科学家的过程中就已经读过了，要么是在他们后来成为科学家的过程中，因为他们喜欢科幻小说中的观点。