Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

  • -- Edwin Louis Cole 埃德温·路易斯·科尔

理性的人适应周围的世界;不讲理的人使世界适应他们。不讲道理的人改变了世界。

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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

我已经环游世界一百次了,却开始忘记我到过哪里。我知道我去过那儿:旅游地图上说过。我记得这个城市的名字,但我不记得它是什么样子的——一片模糊。

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

人们在沙漠中修桥、修铁路,然而他们成功地争辩说,缝钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此,他们不需要缝扣子。

That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.

维持一个小时工作的购买力,即雇员在日常生活中必须购买的商品和服务,是合乎逻辑、公平和合理的。

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

科学,在最广泛的意义上,包括所有合理的关于我们自己和世界的知识的要求。

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

我是艰难的。有时候我是不合理的。我每隔一段时间就得控制一下自己。

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

当一百个人站在一起时,每个人都失去了理智,得到了另一个。

I'm interested in the real world.

我对现实世界感兴趣。