The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  • -- Confucius 孔子

优越的人知道什么是正确的;下等人知道什么东西好卖。

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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

物理学变得如此复杂,以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上,要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间,以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

报纸是历史的秒针。然而,这只手,通常不仅是劣质金属比其他手,它也很少正常工作。

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

人们很少(如果有的话)能梦想出一个比自己优越的神。大多数神都有被宠坏的孩子的举止和道德。

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

比别人优越并不高贵;真正的高贵在于超越过去的自己。

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

天才就是在自己的艺术中找到快乐的人,而且只有他一个人,无论遇到什么困难,他都愿意为之努力。

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

用地狱的形象吓唬孩子,认为女人是低等的创造物。这对世界有好处吗?

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

现在有很多拉丁美洲人,很多电影制片人和作家也是拉丁人。

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.

人们认为我卖出的唱片比我实际卖出的多得多。我真的不卖。

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

这样生活,你就不会因为把家里的鹦鹉卖给镇上的流言蜚语而感到羞耻。

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

美是一种诱饵,它能愉快地引诱人们扩大自己的种类。

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

面对正确的事情,不去做就表示缺乏勇气。

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

如果你把真理关起来,埋在地下,它只会生长。

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

你在和一个真正懂摇滚音乐的人交谈。

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

我会揭露这些门背后的秘密。