Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  • -- Charles Darwin 查尔斯·达尔文

无知比知识更容易带来自信:正是那些知道得很少的人,而不是那些知道得很多的人,如此积极地断言这个或那个问题永远不会被科学解决。

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

我们能经历的最美好的事情就是神秘。它是所有真正艺术和科学的源泉。如果一个人对这种情感是陌生的,他再也不能停下来思考,再也不能全神贯注地敬畏地站着,那他就等于死了:他的眼睛是闭着的。

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

冥想令人鼓舞的地方是,即使我们停止冥想,我们也不能再在无知中停止。我们很清楚地看到,我们正在封闭自己,这本身就开始照亮无知的黑暗。

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

没有错误的理解,就没有意志和情感的罪恶。一个自然人的一切欲望都是无知的欲望。

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

现在流行的是女孩子们把自己打扮得很低能……在中学,因为他们认为这使他们有吸引力。

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

科学就是所有总是成功的食谱的总和。其余的都是文学作品。

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

一知半解是件危险的事。很多也是如此。