It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

这是一个令人痛心的事实,也应该让我们当中最聪明的人懂得谦卑:许多最有价值的发现,都是偶然的结果,而不是深思熟虑的结果,都是偶然的结果,而不是精心设计的结果。

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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

监狱和监狱的设计目的是破坏人类,把人类变成动物园里的标本——对我们的饲养员顺从,但对彼此危险。

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

医学上的发现,它以巨大的飞跃前进,它直接跳过了普通的感冒,给了我们生命。

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

我用描图纸把我的设计转移到木头上,然后画在上面。

There is no better high than discovery.

没有比发现更高的境界了。