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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  • -- Richard Dawkins 理查德·道金斯

说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调，但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。

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I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

我似乎只是一个在海滨玩耍的孩子，不时地在一块比平常更光滑的卵石或更美丽的贝壳中寻找乐趣，而真理的大海却在我面前一片未被发现的汪洋大海。

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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

伟大的文学必须产生于作者灵魂的剧变。如果这种剧变不存在，那么它一定来自任何其他作者的作品，而这些作品恰好是方便和容易改编的。

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

无知的偏见比兴趣的偏见更容易消除;第一种方法都是盲目采用的，第二种方法则是故意选择的。

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People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

人们的无知真让我生气。愚蠢是当你无法控制自己的时候——无知是当你选择不去理解一些事情的时候。

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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

数学把我们带入绝对必然性的领域，在这个领域里，不仅实际的词，而且每一个可能的词都必须符合。

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New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

科学上的新发现将继续为那些敢于冒险的人开辟一千个新的领域。

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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

科学只有一盏灯，照亮任何地方就是照亮任何地方。

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He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

他教我文学，他还教我如何阅读。他是我的私人导师。

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The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

万有引力定律不能对坠入爱河的人负责。

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Mathematics is as old as Man.

数学和人类一样古老。

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