Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

  • -- Paul Valery 保尔·瓦雷里

科学就是所有总是成功的食谱的总和。其余的都是文学作品。

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I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

我不记得他们曾经告诉我们或教导我们,如果其他人不那么成功,我们就能更成功。他们从来没有灌输过这样一种信念:无论如何,为了让我们爬上梯子,其他人必须从梯子上下来。

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

文学的功能,通过它所有的变异,一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性,以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说,文学是颠覆性的。

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

在世界上那些学习和科学占主导地位的地方,奇迹已经停止;但在那些野蛮无知的地方,奇迹仍然流行。

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

从这些微不足道的尝试中,我可能会得出这样的结论:如果命运给我一个机会,我将获得怎样的成功?

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

没有历史和文学的律师是机械师,只是一个泥瓦匠;如果他对这些有一些了解,他可以大胆地自称为建筑师。

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

情感的好处是让我们误入歧途,而科学的好处是它不是情感的。

The success of the film is down to the crew.

这部电影的成功要归功于全体工作人员。

Count no man successful until he is dead.

死后才算成功。