The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

  • -- Fredrik Bajer 弗雷德里克·贝耶

我最重视的一般大会和这类会议的方面是讨论。这就是为什么人们聚集在一起:听取不同的意见,而不是通过决议。

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情,而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

然而,我不会自由地用我的科学来交换我的获奖者。他们的专业讨论永远局限于他们的少数科学家同行。

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

在沉默中也许会有一些美好的东西。这是一个全新的东西。如果你一直把音量调低,你就能听到最有趣的小讨论。把自己关起来,大声听。

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

这是一个如何确保社会任何成员所知道的资源得到最佳利用的问题,其目的的相对重要性只有这些个人知道。

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

品格胜于祖先,个人行为胜于至上。