My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

我的工作是教导我的抱负,使它们与事实相符,而不是试图使事实与我的抱负相协调。

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

事实上,仅仅有好的想法是不够的;它必须在人类中获得成功。要实现这一点,必须遵循不那么纯粹的道路。

Don't just teach your children to read…Teach them to question what they read.Teach them to question everything.

不要只是教你的孩子读书,还要教他们质疑他们所读的东西。教他们质疑一切。

We teach people how to treat us.

我们教人们如何对待我们。