Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

  • -- Felix Mendelssohn 费利克斯·门德尔松

自从我开始写作,我就一直坚持着我最初的原则:不写一页,因为无论什么公众,或什么漂亮女孩想要这样或那样;而是按照我自己认为最好的方式,按照它给我带来的快乐来写作。

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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

科学是建立在客观可能性的基础上的,是建立在不同的人自己检验别人的观察结果的可能性上的。没有这种可能性,就没有能够在不同的论点和理论之间做出决定的经验主义原则。

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

回顾我的一生,我希望我年轻的时候能更经常地出洋相,因为当你这样做的时候,你会发现你能做到。

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

适度好的东西并不如它应该的那么好。适度的性情总是一种美德;但是原则上适度总是一种恶习。

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

公众认为无家可归就是没有住处可住。

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

冰立方是我的一部分,我给公众。

I was not an easy kid.

我不是一个容易相处的孩子。