A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

  • -- Charles M. Russell 查尔斯·M·拉塞尔

先驱者破坏事物并称之为文明。

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

习惯是第二天性,它能破坏第一天性。但什么是自然?为什么习惯不是自然的?我很担心,自然本身只是第一个习惯,就像习惯是第二天性一样。

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

生活不能包容你,它会让你崩溃。这是命中注定的,而且它不能做得更好。每粒种子都会破坏它的容器,否则就不会有果实。

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

我们把科学归功于天才个人的综合能力,而不是文明固有的任何进步趋势。

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。