Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  • -- Abraham Flexner 亚伯拉罕·弗莱克斯纳

也许,没有一个国家富裕到可以同时为战争和文明买单。我们必须做出选择;我们不能两者兼得。

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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

一个文明的国家可以没有敌人,一个人不能在地图上画一条线,这条线甚至在自然界中都不存在,说丑陋的敌人生活在一边,好朋友生活在另一边。

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

我非常独立,如果不是因为我的成长方式,我可能不会独立。

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

我总是记录的比我能用的多得多。可能有两倍的记录。

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。