You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

  • -- Christopher James Hampton 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·汉普顿

你知道得很清楚,除非你是科学家,理论的形状要比它的真实性重要得多。

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When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

当一个人破坏另一个人的时候,只会带来麻烦,团队不会成功。对我们两人来说,接受自己的角色并帮助团队是非常重要的。一个人会变热,如果那是亚历克斯,我会支持他,尽我所能帮助他。

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.

如果这种影响不是发生在某一时期,并以某种方式使其提供了可以恰当地作出重大概括的具体情况,那么他的影响就会是短暂的记忆,而且相对不那么重要。

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

所有你可能达到或发现的,你都将被视为真理的一个更大模式的片段,每个真正的学者都在从不同的方法中努力去发现这个模式。

People think being alone makes you lonely but i don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

人们认为独处会让你感到孤独,但我不这么认为。被错误的人包围是世界上最孤独的事情。