I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

  • -- Fritz Zwicky 弗里茨·茨威基

我很快就相信了……所有的理论都是空洞的大脑活动,因此如果不先弄清楚宇宙到底由什么组成,那就是在浪费时间。

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In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year.

在我的生活中,有一些人,我相信他们会永远在我身边,然而,不知何故,他们在几年后设法离开了。同样,也有一些人开始只是泛泛之交,但随着时间的流逝,他们变得越来越重要。

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

我活得越久,就越确信,我们能够授予他人的最大荣誉之一,就是看到他们的本来面目,不仅认识到他们的存在,而且认识到他们以特定的方式存在,并拥有特定的现实。

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

一个没有充分利用其女性人口的智力力量的社会不是一个明智的社会。大多数女性不像男性那样被经济运行中的错误所玷污,现在她们应该得到一个机会。

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

博雅教育……把一个人从阶级、种族、时间、地点、背景、家庭甚至国家的监狱中解放出来。

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

黑人人口现在由两个截然不同的阶层组成——中产阶级和穷人。

You have to give time some time.

你必须给自己一些时间。