What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

  • -- Richard Bach 理查德巴赫

毛毛虫所谓的世界末日,大师称之为蝴蝶。

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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

生命的稳定,地球的不变使我感到安慰。在知识的发展过程中,似乎是新鲜而可怕的东西占据了一席之地。了解我们的宇宙是件好事。新事物对我们来说只是新事物。

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

我开始相信整个世界是一个谜,一个无害的谜,我们疯狂地试图去解释它,仿佛它有一个潜在的真理,这使它变得可怕。

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

当我可以死去的时候,我希望那些最了解我的人对我说,我总是摘下蓟,在我认为会开花的地方种上一朵花。

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

怀疑自己的首要原则是文明人的标志。