A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
问题
Questions
I like the big questions.
我喜欢大问题。
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
谨慎的问题是智慧的一半。
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
智慧的关键是知道所有正确的问题。
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
电脑是无用的。他们只能给你答案。
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.
发现是一种被简单事物迷惑的能力。
It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.
坦率地说,回答我所有的问题并不容易。
Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.
判断别人要看他们的问题,而不是他们的答案。
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
哲学家是坚持问幼稚问题的成年人。
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
问题的结构,因此,在某种程度上预先决定答案。
It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.
这里到处都是问题。一个人可能会被它们淹没。
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
问题是别人的负担;答案是自己的监狱。
Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
在网球运动中,太多的人问了太多的问题。高尔夫是更好。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
我已经确信,经济学家忽视认真讨论我们这个时代真正关键的问题,是因为他们在从纯粹的科学问题转向价值问题的过程中,存在着一定的畏惧感。
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
在科学问题上,一千人的权威并不值得一个人的简单推理。
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
科学从一个问题到另一个问题;大问题,小问题,试探性的答案。随着年龄的增长,这些问题的范围越来越广,答案似乎也越来越有限。
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
这是我的黄金法则:对别人要公平,但要坚持下去,直到他们对你公平。
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
如果你想要一个自由的社会,教你的孩子什么是压迫的滋味。告诉他们从这里到那里需要多少奇迹。最重要的是,鼓励他们问问题。教他们独立思考。