The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

  • -- Thomas Robert Malthus 马尔萨斯

近年来所发生的那些伟大而又不为人知的发现,都使许多人一致认为,我们正在接近一个有着最重要变化的重大时期。

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The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

艺术家的艺术必须是他自己的艺术。它是……总是一连串的小发明,一个人自己的小技术发现,与工具,材料和颜色的关系。

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

我们是唯一真正关心保护的外国人他们来这里挖掘,也许他们中的一些人关心保护,但大多数人关心发现。

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

浪漫像鬼一样逃不掉缠绵;它总是在你不在的地方,而不是你在的地方。采访或交谈在当时是散文,但在记忆中却是诗歌。

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

世界上所有最好的故事在现实中都只是一个故事——一个关于逃跑的故事。如何逃跑,这是我们所有人在任何时候唯一感兴趣的事情。

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

新观点常常首先以玩笑和幻想的形式出现,然后以亵渎和背叛的形式出现,最后以可供讨论的问题的形式出现,最后以公认的真理的形式出现。

Intelligence could not thrive where there was no change and no necessity for change.

如果没有改变,也没有必要改变,智力就不会兴旺发达。

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

事实是任何事情的开始和结束都是一样的感人。

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

只有公众的意见才有价值。