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。
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
只有神圣的爱才能赐予知识的钥匙。
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
无知的阶级是危险的阶级。
Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.
健康的好奇心是创新的关键。
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
除了我的无知,我什么也不知道。
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
认识需要与对象相适应的器官。
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
因为科学必须呼吸自由的氧气。
A book without words is a mind without thought.
一本没有文字的书,犹如一颗没有思想的心。
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
知识只是一半。信仰是另一种。
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
当我们毕业时,我们不会停止上学。
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
思想是一切财富的起点。
I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
我有这种来自知识的力量。
When the student is ready... the lesson appears.
当学生准备好……出现的教训。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
有些人太忙于学习这一行的诀窍,以至于他们从来没有学过这一行。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒,不是为了相信和想当然,也不是为了寻找谈资和话语,而是为了权衡和思考。
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
科学告诉我们存在什么,却不告诉我们该做什么。
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
科学的主要目的是简单,随着我们理解的东西越来越多,一切都变得越来越简单。
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
对什么是真正的学问一无所知,因而产生了怀疑;物质主义,以及随之而来的智力上的松懈,这两者都对大学造成了毁灭性的影响。
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
我们为什么要做基础研究?了解我们自己。