A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
知识
Knowledge
知识从好奇开始,在阅读、思考和实践中积累。这里的语句围绕求知与理解展开,适合结合英文关键词和中文译文一起阅读。
We read to know that we are not alone.
我们读书是为了知道我们并不孤单。
Every burned book enlightens the world.
每一本烧过的书都照亮了世界。
First learn the rules, then break them.
先学习规则,然后打破规则。
You're never going to learn everything.
你永远学不会所有的东西。
I have read your book and much like it.
我读过你的书,很喜欢。
No two persons ever read the same book.
没有两个人读过同一本书。
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
知识增长,奇迹加深。
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
教书是通往知识的康庄大道。
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
从写作和阅读中学到的东西一样多。
Reading is more important than writing.
阅读比写作更重要。
A book is not completed till it's read.
书不读不完。
I write books to find out about things.
我写书是为了了解事物。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
科学并不仅仅局限于目前可以证实的东西。但它感兴趣的问题可能是可验证的(或者,更确切地说,是可证伪的)。
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
无知之所以如此之多,是因为拥有无知的人非常渴望分享无知。
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
正是无知的眼睛给每件事物赋予了固定不变的色彩;小心这个绊脚石。
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
因为学术——如果要成为学术的话——除了要求自由,还要求真理凌驾于包括私利在内的所有宗派利益之上。
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
对真理的探索,是对真理的爱的追求,对真理的认识,是对真理的存在,对真理的信仰,是对真理的享受,是人类本性至高无上的美德。
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
在阅读盲文的过程中,有一个视力正常的人永远也不会知道的奇迹:触摸文字,让它们也触摸你。