There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

  • -- Rod Serling 罗德塞林

在人类所知之外,还有第五维度。它是一个和空间一样广阔,和无限一样永恒的维度。它是光明与黑暗、科学与迷信之间的中间地带。

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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

有一种永恒的建筑方式。它已经有一千年的历史了,今天和过去一样。过去伟大的传统建筑,村庄,帐篷和寺庙,让人有宾至如归的感觉,总是由离这条路很近的人建造的。

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

当人们认为地球是平的时候,他们错了。当人们认为地球是球形的时候,他们错了。但是,如果你认为认为地球是球形和认为地球是扁平一样错误,那么你的观点就比这两种观点加起来还要错误。

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

那些害怕想象和幻想的人的问题是,他们的世界变得如此狭小,以至于我看不出他们的想象力如何超越他们的感官所能证实的。我们从科学上知道,我们的感官无法验证整个世界。

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.

一座建筑或一座城镇只有在以一种永恒的方式管理时才会存在。这是一个从我们自己身上产生秩序的过程;这是不可能实现的,但它会自动发生,如果我们只让它。

My biggest dream for this company is to restore it - to bring Time Warner back to the position that I think it once had and, even better than that, to make it the greatest company in the media and entertainment world.

我对这家公司最大的梦想是重振它——让时代华纳回到我认为它曾经拥有的地位,甚至更好,让它成为媒体和娱乐界最伟大的公司。

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

写作不是时间的问题,而是空间的问题。如果你的脑子里没有写作的空间,即使你有时间,你也不会写作。

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

大自然和大自然的法则隐藏在黑夜里。上帝说,让牛顿去吧!一切都是光明的!

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

当人们放弃思考的特权时,自由的最后阴影就会离开地平线。

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

每个孩子都是艺术家。问题是一旦我们长大了,如何保持艺术家的身份。

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

在科学工作中,拒绝超越事实的人很少能达到事实的高度。

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

我再也看不到中路的球了——甚至在击球练习中也没有。

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

多能细胞有能力在体内生长成任何细胞。

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

你们要谨慎,不可因贪恋那影儿,就失掉了本质。

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

古板的中年人喜欢歌剧的狂热。