Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

哈罗德和我们其他人一样,有许多印象,这使他不必为自己的想法而烦恼。

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

经验,已经被压缩成一组印象,围绕着我们每一个人的是一堵厚厚的人格之墙,没有任何真正的声音穿过这堵墙来到我们身边,或者从我们身边传到我们只能猜测没有的地方。

I'm excited, ... It's a fresh start. I need to make some good impressions and get back to where I once was. I'm not getting caught up in who's (in San Diego) and who's not there. I'm just getting a fresh start and a chance to rebuild.

我兴奋,……这是一个新的开始。我需要留下一些好印象,回到我曾经的位置。我不会纠结于谁在(圣地亚哥)谁不在那里。我只是有了一个新的开始和一个重建的机会。

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

大部分最有趣的科学家都曾经或多或少地读过很多科幻小说,要么是在他们成为科学家的过程中就已经读过了,要么是在他们后来成为科学家的过程中,因为他们喜欢科幻小说中的观点。

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

思想的产生具有爆炸性的即时性,就像一个瞬间的诞生。人类的思想就像一个巨大的钟摆;它一直从一个极端摇摆到另一个极端。